Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Language, it is often said, is a window into the human mind. David Harrison experienced this firsthand as a young linguist in the ...
An app to teach students the Navajo language. (Photo: Cronkite News) To support the revitalization, protection, preservation and reclamation of Indigenous languages across the United States, the Biden ...
Like many Indigenous people of North America, Miali Coley-Sudlovenick fears that her native language is dying. European colonization left Inuit struggling to preserve their culture and tongue in an ...
A new billboard campaign in Los Angeles highlights Indigenous migrants from Latin America, along with the many Indigenous languages they speak. Both have long been overlooked by local institutions, ...
Chelsea T. Hicks and Claire Campo are leading efforts to revive Indigenous languages through the "Words of the People: Rematriation Retreat", an immersive event designed for 100 Indigenous language ...
Oregon is home to over 30,000 people who exclusively speak Indigenous languages, many of whom perform essential labor in agriculture or other jobs. These are our neighbors, friends, relatives and ...
A dual-language program on the Winnebago reservation in Nebraska is working to preserve the disappearing Ho-Chunk Indigenous language. It's disappearing on the reservation and across the Midwest. The ...
Native languages across the country are on the edge of extinction. A report issued this year by the Bureau of Indian Affairs says the country may be down to fewer than two dozen by 2050. One tribe is ...
For more than 300 years, the Monterey Bay area has served as a cultural and linguistic crossroads where diverse communities have met, mingled, and exchanged ideas. One of the lesser-known but deeply ...
When the federal government set up boarding schools in the 19th century to assimilate Native American children into American culture, one of the objectives was to get them to turn away from the use of ...
Los Angeles has recently welcomed a slate of elected officials following the widespread outrage from the leaked audio recording that has exposed deep-seated, racist behavior within L.A.’s local ...
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