When life-saving information is not provided in a language people understand, it can delay protective action and put communities at unnecessary risk. This was evident during the 2023 Yellowknife ...

Native Americans and Alaskan Natives have the highest mortality rate of all racial and ethnic groups in the United States. Diabetes, alcohol-related deaths and chronic liver and kidney disease are ...

Former President Trump's English-only mandate sparked concern among Indigenous language advocates. Despite historical suppression, Indigenous language revitalization efforts are gaining momentum.

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

TORONTO – May 11, 2023 – With funding from Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Baycrest, the Kingston Indigenous Language Nest (KILN) and the University of Toronto have ...

Lu’kupsíimey member Kellen Lewis, translator Silvia Soto, Lu’kupsíimey members Phil Cash Cash, Julian Ankney, and Inés Hernández-Ávila at CELALI in Chiapas, Mexico in restaurant . (Photo courtesy: ...

Tribal leaders and language immersion educators will convene in Missoula on March 8 and 9 for a Class 7 professional development training and language revitalization workshop. The Class 7 Indigenous ...

Across the world, experts estimate that one language dies every two weeks, and with it, unique modes of communication, cultural knowledge, and religious practices. In the U.S.—as most tribal nations ...

When the federal government set up boarding schools in the 19th century to assimilate Native American children into American culture, one of the objectives was to get them to turn away from the use of ...

This episode explores what indigenous communities are doing to revitalize the Anishinaabe language. The United Nations projects one indigenous language dying EVERY TWO WEEKS, and tribes across the ...