Indigenous language speakers, educators and advocates gathered last week for the fifth annual Dakota and Ojibwe Language Symposium with a shared goal of growing the number of native language speakers ...

For Indigenous Peoples, the ability to speak, learn and transmit their mother tongue is inseparable from the exercise of ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 5-year-old names objects and animals in the Arapaho language in February 2017 as the tribe works to recover its culture and ...

Associated Student Government passed three pieces of legislation at its Wednesday meeting, asking Northwestern to offer ...

Language educators in Juneau are working to create a Master’s in Teaching program for Indigenous languages at the University of Alaska Southeast. It would be the first of its kind in Alaska.

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 ...

Creating and cataloguing recordings of indigenous languages is a challenging enough technology task, but the Wangka Maya Pilbara Aboriginal Language Centre had some additional barriers to overcome: ...

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 ...

The indigenous and women-led non-profit, Comunidades Indígenas en Liderazgo (CIELO), a human rights organization dedicated to language access, cultural preservation, and social justice, recalls many ...

Special nurseries are helping the Sámi people in Finland to bring their almost-lost language back from the brink 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 ...