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Before European colonization, there were 14 language families in what would become the State of Oregon, according to National Geographic. Today, that number is down to five. The trend of language ...

As you walk through the halls of Navajo Preparatory School, you will see students from across Diné Bikeyyah— the Navajo Nation — often wearing a tsiiyééł, a traditional Diné hair bun, Nike sneakers, ...

The University of Arizona’s new West Region Native American Language Resource Center is leading a national effort to empower tribal communities in language revitalization. The resource center received ...

The Departments of the Interior, Education, and Health and Human Services have announced a plan to revitalize Native languages, addressing the federal government's role in erasing them through forced ...

After more than 50 years of service, the Alaska Native Language Center will close its doors this summer, a victim of realigned budget priorities at the University of Alaska. Though few Alaskans may ...

When he was a younger man, Unkechaug Nation Chief Harry Wallace had a vision. Wallace said he was told of three sacred bundles — one of which was the talking sticks, a tool of Indigenous democracy ...

Language researchers just released the latest version of the Ethnologue, which aims to catalogue the state of all of the world's languages, all 7,164 of them. Many of these languages are endangered.

EdSource · Hot classrooms, leaky roofs — one student’s fight for better school facilities (Rebroadcast) When Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reportedly said, “I only speak American” during a meeting of ...

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