An app to teach students the Navajo language. (Photo by Cronkite News) To support the revitalization, protection, preservation and reclamation of Indigenous languages across the United States, the ...

A selection of the Vi Hilbert Collection, called “ Voices of the First People ” was curated and digitized by Sercombe. When ...

Efforts to help preserve the Muscogee tribal language led to an $8 million gift to College of the Muscogee Nation, its ...

Exploring links between documentation, sociolinguistics and language revitalization: an introduction / José Antonio Flores Farfán and Fernando Ramallo -- The social life of a language: will Manambu ...

"Thirty years ago, I believed that learning my heritage language would help me reconnect to a part of myself that I valued. Although I had no way of knowing if I was correct in that belief, my ...

Bernadette Quiroz, language revitalization chair for the Muwekma Ohlone tribe, will discuss the tribe’s endangered Indigenous language in “A History of Chochenyo: A Language Reawakened,” on Wednesday, ...

There are currently 7,164 languages worldwide; however, this number is decreasing each year. According to Ethnologue, a research center for language intelligence, about 44% of languages are endangered ...

As you walk through the halls of Navajo Preparatory School, you will see students from across Diné Bikeyyah— the Navajo Nation — often wearing a tsiiyééł, a traditional Diné hair bun, Nike sneakers, ...

Shay Sullivan is a theoretical linguist whose work in linguistics primarily is aimed to benefit and elevate the lives of marginalized and/or non-normative individuals. Her main work draws on ...

According to the Department of Interior, the Bureau of Indian Education funds 187 schools for Indigenous students and works to provide them with a culturally relevant, high-quality education. However, ...