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 ...

Odisha's Deputy CM launched 'Aame Padhibaa Aama Bhasare', enabling tribal preschoolers to learn in their mother tongue at ...

Like many Cherokee Nation citizens of his generation, Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. never had the chance to learn his tribal language in school. He said those opportunities simply didn’t exist at ...

Lynette St. Clair of the Eastern Shoshone Tribe participates in a language-learning app workshop in Las Vegas. Organized by software company Thornton Media, the workshop trains tribal members to use ...

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 ...

MIAMI, Okla. — Preserving the culture of a local tribe is the main purpose behind a new language center in Miami. Specifically, the Shawnee Language Center – officially celebrated with a ribbon ...

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, ...