TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — When school started this year for Mikalay in Belarus, the 15-year-old discovered that his teachers and administrators no longer called him by that name. Instead, they referred ...

The U.S. Department of Education announced last week more than $8 million in available grant funding across three key initiatives for Native Students. The new grants seek to bolster Native students' ...

I am Chinese American, but I was raised speaking a language that is unintelligible even to most Mandarin speakers: Shanghainese. As a kid, I learned the nuances of the dialect, from native ...

As Tammy Haili‘ōpua Baker wondered what play to produce for her first show running the Hawaiian theater program at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, a book literally fell off the shelf and hit her ...

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 ...

This article has been updated to correct the portion of the state represented by Rep. David Eastman. A bill by a Juneau legislator adding three Alaska Native languages to those officially recognized ...

Native American language and culture classes have not always been offered at Brown. But, through the recent work of community members, students have been given the opportunity to engage with Native ...

Fourth grader Darrel Tuuya Owen from Akiak did not seem fazed by the crowd. He spelled out his words in a loud, clear voice. (Rhonda McBride/KNBA) The statewide Yup’ik language spelling bee was born ...

For most of us, presenting confidently and clearly in our native language is hard enough. But communicating in another language is marked by unique challenges and opportunities for growth. Fortunately ...