What does it take to reawaken a sleeping language? For Elizabeth Bryant, a Takelma language program leader for the Cow Creek ...

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 ...

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 ...

MACY, Neb. (KCAU) — Preserving a language and teaching it to the next generation takes effort, and some new technology can ...

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.

The White House is launching a new effort to help tribes preserve their languages. A memorandum signed on Monday directs the Department of Interior, Education, and others to identify ways to better ...

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 ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Before English, French or any European language was spoken in the spot of the map where Missouri sits, Native American tribes brought their own dialects to the region. One of those ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – No one can currently speak the Cowlitz Coast Salish language fluently, but Tribal leaders hope the language-learning materials they’re releasing now will result in more fluent ...

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 ...

The Little Shell Tribe is offering free Ojibwe language methods, materials and lessons in Great Falls on Wednesday and Thursday. Lessons are free and open to the public and will be taught at the ...