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Before European colonization, there were 14 language families in what would become the State of Oregon, according to National Geographic. Today, that number is down to five. The trend of language ...

The Departments of the Interior, Education, and Health and Human Services have announced a plan to revitalize Native languages, addressing the federal government's role in erasing them through forced ...

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, ...

When he was a younger man, Unkechaug Nation Chief Harry Wallace had a vision. Wallace said he was told of three sacred bundles — one of which was the talking sticks, a tool of Indigenous democracy ...

California has an opportunity to lead by ensuring its public school systems recognize and support the rights of Native Americans to use, practice, maintain, and revitalize their languages, as ...

The University of Arizona’s new West Region Native American Language Resource Center is leading a national effort to empower tribal communities in language revitalization. The resource center received ...

Former President Trump's English-only mandate sparked concern among Indigenous language advocates. Despite historical suppression, Indigenous language revitalization efforts are gaining momentum.

Language researchers just released the latest version of the Ethnologue, which aims to catalogue the state of all of the world's languages, all 7,164 of them. Many of these languages are endangered.

East Central University’s Native American Studies program will be presenting two Indigenous Language Revitalization Workshops on campus on Nov. 6 and Nov. 13 in Hallie Brown Ford Fine Arts Center, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An app to teach students the Navajo language. (Photo by Cronkite News) To support the revitalization, protection, preservation and ...