President Donald Trump issued an executive order over the weekend declaring English as the official language of the U.S. Tribes say "not so fast." ...

When Joshuaa Allison-Burbank (Diné, Acoma Pueblo) worked as a speech pathologist in his home community of the Navajo Nation, he saw an effect of colonialism, boarding schools and broken treaty ...

The Alaska Department of Education and Early Development is seeking a specialist in Alaska Native language education to create state standards for reading in Alaska Native languages for students from ...

According to the Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development, Alaska Native languages were the second-most common language for Alaskans 65 and older and for youth ages 5-17.

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 ...

Before Monday evening’s advanced Tlingít language class, Raven Svenson and her classmate discussed how to conjugate the verb “boil” in the context of cooking. The University of Alaska Southeast class ...

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 ...

Fort Lewis College is on a mission to revive Native and Indigenous languages, and it has received a $1.5 million Mellon grant to pursue that goal. Students at FLC represent more than 180 Native ...

This story originally appeared on Underscore News. Decades of government policies aimed at forcibly assimilating Native Americans, guided by the notion of “kill the Indian and save the man,” included ...

I met a man in the sauna at the downtown Duluth YMCA whose daughter is enrolled in the Misaabekong Ojibwe immersion program at Lowell Elementary School. She wants to connect more deeply with her ...