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 ...

A number of Washington state public schools are partnering with tribes to bring Indigenous languages into classrooms in an effort to rectify the marred history of Native American boarding schools.

PLUMMER, Idaho — The Coeur d’Alene Tribe is in danger of losing its most valuable asset: its voice. There are only three people left in the world who can fluently speak the Coeur d’Alene language. But ...

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 ...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — In a windowless conference room in a Las Vegas casino, about three dozen people are swishing their fingers across iPads, trying out test versions of new apps and screening for ...

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- This foreign language class in the Yosemite Unified School District isn't your typical Spanish, French or German option. At Yosemite High School, students have the opportunity ...

Listen to Maggie Marsey read Psalm23 in Euchee, here. SAPULPA -- Henry Washburn would say it's a "de che ne," or battle, to keep his native tongue alive. "This is a hard language; I guess there's no ...

CINCINNATI (AP) — Daryl Baldwin was born around the time that his Miami Tribe of Oklahoma was losing its last generation of fluent speakers and facing the possibility that its language would die with ...

MIAMI, Okla. — Preserving the culture of a local tribe is the main purpose behind a new language center in Miami. Specifically, the Shawnee Language Center – officially celebrated with a ribbon ...

MACY, Neb. (AP) — Two sisters from the Omaha Tribe keep a list of the people who still speak their language. There are 12 names left. Glenna Slater and Octa Keen are among the few certified to teach ...

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