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 ...

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 ...

Eleven preschoolers are scattered throughout a classroom at Shawash-iliʔi Skul, an immersion school run by the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde in northwestern Oregon, chattering away, but not just ...

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 ...

Addressing the National Multilingual Education Conclave, the Jharkhand Education Project Council (JEPC), through the ...

When he began recording the words of a Native speaker 40 years ago, linguist Noel Rude had no idea that his life’s work would form the foundation of the first dictionary for the Umatilla language.

Listen to Maggie Marsey read Psalm23 in Euchee, here. SAPULPA -- Henry Washburn would say it's a "de che ne," or battle, to keep his native tongue alive. "This is a hard language; I guess there's no ...

The bulk of the surviving languages were spoken only by tribal members who were middle-aged or older. Today, most tribes across the country are making some type of effort toward a language comeback, ...