As Native language programs flourish in classrooms, Indian centers, tribal meeting rooms and online, President Donald Trump issued an executive order over the weekend declaring English would be the ...

When Joshuaa Allison-Burbank (Diné, Acoma Pueblo) worked as a speech pathologist in his home community of the Navajo Nation, he saw an effect of colonialism, boarding schools and broken treaty ...

Duke will offer a series of Cherokee language courses this fall, marking the first time an Indigenous language will be taught at the University. Announced July 23, the course series begins in fall ...

Fort Lewis College is on a mission to revive Native and Indigenous languages, and it has received a $1.5 million Mellon grant to pursue that goal. Students at FLC represent more than 180 Native ...

Before Monday evening’s advanced Tlingít language class, Raven Svenson and her classmate discussed how to conjugate the verb “boil” in the context of cooking. The University of Alaska Southeast class ...

Decades of government policies aimed at forcibly assimilating Native Americans, guided by the notion of “kill the Indian and save the man,” included generations of Indigenous children ripped away from ...

How long does it take to become fluent in a language? Here’s the realistic timelines, expert insights, and fluency tips for ...

ISanti Dakotah hemahantan. Do. I come from the iSanti Dakotah (Santee Sioux). It sounds so simple, but learning to introduce myself in the traditional Dakota language formed a powerful connection to ...

The Alaska Department of Education and Early Development is seeking a specialist in Alaska Native language education to create state standards for reading in Alaska Native languages for students from ...