During the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Indigenous Nations across the country like mine began to feel it’s disproportionate impact on our communities. Then, we started losing the most precious ...

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 ...

A collaborative effort between the Future Stewards Program and the RIT Department of Modern Languages and Culture has resulted in the Indigenous language and culture education, preservation and ...

This stark difference is not due to a natural change but a result of violence against Indigenous people through European colonial practices, like forcing them into Spanish-only boarding schools that ...

The University of Minnesota’s unique Dakota language and Ojibwe language majors allow students to pursue several paths involving their culture. Students are allowed the opportunity to learn the ...

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 ...

Patrick Del Percio first showed an interest in learning the Cherokee language at the age of seven, when their family visited a living history museum portraying a 1760s Cherokee village. Del Percio ...

After learning from Native American Yuchi families, Pertame elders and young mothers in Alice Springs are raising babies in a ...

The root of my fascination with Indigenous languages can be traced to a rock band from Finland my brother listened to called HIM. When 12-year-old me heard them being interviewed in Finnish, I found ...

Indigenous languages maintain millennia of distinct place-based knowledge, whether ecological, spiritual or relational.

There has been a global push to revitalise Indigenous languages since the late 1980s. Aotearoa New Zealand has been at the forefront of revitalisation efforts, earning the admiration of campaigners in ...