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 ...
Viewers who tune into the Super Bowl pregame show on Sunday will be treated to an unusual performance of “America the Beautiful,” which will be told, in part, through Native American sign language.
When Joshuaa Allison-Burbank worked as a speech pathologist in his home community of the  Navajo Nation, he saw an effect of ...
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 ...
Introduction: revealing Native American language ideologies / Margaret C. Field and Paul V. Kroskrity -- Changing Navajo language ideologies and changing language use / Margaret C. Field -- ...
As public media is threatened after cuts from Trump administration, Indigenous radio also face threats to how they preserve and grow language. Samantha Honani Molina was about 20 when KUYI-Hopi Radio ...
Students at the Arapaho School in Arapahoe, Wyoming, learn using an Arapaho language app. Credit: Joe Amon/The Denver Post via Getty Images The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up ...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — A few years back, Sage Brook Carbone was attending a powwow at the Mashantucket Western Pequot reservation in Connecticut when she noticed signs in the Pequot language. Carbone, a ...
Experience the fight of Native Americans to keep their languages and ways of life alive. Celebrate the power of Native languages and the inspirational people who are saving them. From secret ...
Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham abruptly thwarted tribal efforts to improve their children’s education when she pocket vetoed Senate Bill 13, which would have allowed tribes to operate public schools ...
President Donald Trump issued an executive order declaring English as the nation's official language, but Native leaders dispute its reach. For many years, the federal government tried to erase Native ...