Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 5-year-old names objects and animals in the Arapaho language in February 2017 as the tribe works to recover its culture and ...

The University of Minnesota’s unique Dakota language and Ojibwe language majors allow students to pursue several paths involving their culture. Students are allowed the opportunity to learn the ...

When Native students are exposed to their cultural languages, their sense of well-being improves and they’re more likely to graduate, studies show. Similarly, culturally responsive teaching and ...

Like many Indigenous people of North America, Miali Coley-Sudlovenick fears that her native language is dying. European colonization left Inuit struggling to preserve their culture and tongue in an ...

"I am saving my people's language from extinction." Elfreida Begay is a high school teacher who is teaching the ancient Navajo language to students at Durango High School in Colorado. In fact, she is ...

Renowned African author, Prof. Ngugi wa Thiong’o, recently urged African countries to promote their indigenous languages for meaningful social and economic development. He spoke in Lagos at the second ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. BILLINGS — Decades ago, around 85% of the Crow Tribe used to speak their indigenous language. Not ...

For Rosa Francour and other educators who are revitalizing Indigenous languages in Wisconsin, their work is about more than teaching people to use different words to communicate. Language is about ...

Cape Peninsula University of Technology provides funding as a partner of The Conversation AFRICA. South African indigenous languages are among those at risk of a serious decline due to the increasing ...