A 5-year-old names objects and animals in the Arapaho language in February 2017 as the tribe works to recover its culture and language on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming. WhenIwas in grade ...

The program, along with other Indigenous Language programs at the university, faces difficulties as classes have been cut ...

An app to teach students the Navajo language. (Photo: Cronkite News) To support the revitalization, protection, preservation and reclamation of Indigenous languages across the United States, the Biden ...

Native languages across the country are on the edge of extinction. A report issued this year by the Bureau of Indian Affairs says the country may be down to fewer than two dozen by 2050. One tribe is ...

After more than a century of silence, the Bunurong language is being brought back to life by elders, linguists and community.

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 ...

Sealaska Heritage Institute’s new language games app. (Photo by Yvonne Krumrey/KTOO) Sealaska Heritage Institute released new language learning apps in X̱aad Kíl and Shm’algyack this month. The apps ...

Columbus Day is recognized by many people as Indigenous Peoples' Day. A foreign language app with more than 300 million users is marking Columbus Day, which is alternatively recognized as Indigenous ...

On a warm April morning, in the minutes after roll call ends and before lessons begin, the classroom is buzzing with energy. It’s one of two classrooms in a primary school surrounded by sal trees deep ...

COFFS HARBOUR, Australia (Reuters) - Whirling barefoot in a sand circle, Clark Webb leads a class of school children as they dance to clapsticks and the songs of the Gumbaynggirr, an Aboriginal ...

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As Accra grows more cosmopolitan, the indigenous language of its founders is fading from daily life. For the Ga people, this ...