International Mother Language Day Feb. 21
Superbowl XLVIII ignited a firestorm of controversy, but it wasn’t for a referee call. It was for…
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Bill Making 20 Native Languages Official Advances
JUNEAU — Amid cheers and clapping from spectators in a packed room, the House Community and Regional…
Canada and First Nations Reach Deal Over Schooling
Indigenous communities in Canada will be given control over the education system on their reserves under an…
Navajo Language, Traditions are Celebrated at This School
Dorothy Bigman, one of Monument Valley High’s first graduates, now teaches its students the Navajo language using…
Last Known Native Speaker of Tribal Klallam Language Hazel Sampson Dies Aged 103
US government, once active in its attempts to eliminate many Native American dialects, recently made an effort…
Coca-Cola’s ‘America the Beautiful’ Super Bowl Ad Causes Stir
Toward the end of the first half of yesterday’s Super Bowl, Coca-Cola premiered an ad called “It’s…
Keeping Dying Languages Alive
Smithsonian keeps recorded voices, documents, more. Daryl Baldwin learned about the Smithsonian’s National Anthropological Archives when…
Indigenous Educators Learn From Hawaiian Language Renewal
The Hawaiian language came back from the brink of extinction in the early 1980s thanks to a…