Alaska Public Media

Want to learn endangered Alaska Indigenous languages? There's an app for that.

Sealaska Heritage Institute’s new language games app. (Photo by Yvonne Krumrey/KTOO) Sealaska Heritage Institute released new language learning apps in X̱aad Kíl and Shm’algyack this month. The apps ...

Honoring Native Mothers: Our First Teachers

Opinion This Mother’s Day, Native News Online honors Native mothers — the life-givers, the culture-keepers, the women whose ...
The Harvard Crimson

Indigenous Language Reclamation Efforts Expand at Harvard

This summer, Amy E. Chalán Vacacela ’24 opened the course catalog and clicked straight to the Ethnicity, Migration, Rights offerings. When EMR 151: “Quechua, Indigenous language revitalization and ...
CNN

This Inuk woman is teaching her Indigenous language online to help others reconnect with Inuit culture

Like many Indigenous people of North America, Miali Coley-Sudlovenick fears that her native language is dying. European colonization left Inuit struggling to preserve their culture and tongue in an ...
Mashable

Stunning animated game helps teach endangered Aboriginal language

Words are the binds that keep communities together, but many of Australia's First Languages are rapidly being lost. When combined with new technologies, however, they can be preserved and spread in ...
In These Times

In North Carolina, Immigrants Resist the U.S. “Language Graveyard”

Students sing a song during their weekly Hñähñu class at the Porvenir Community Center in Emma, North Carolina. The classes are part of an effort to revitalize the Hñähñu language and culture among ...
Minnesota Daily

The importance of Indigenous language degrees

The University of Minnesota’s unique Dakota language and Ojibwe language majors allow students to pursue several paths involving their culture. Students are allowed the opportunity to learn the ...
Oregonian

Oregon’s Indigenous language institute continues to thrive as it crosses 25-year mark

Decades of government policies aimed at forcibly assimilating Native Americans, guided by the notion of “kill the Indian and save the man,” included generations of Indigenous children ripped away from ...
Alaska Public Media

How learning an Indigenous language leads to healing

KTOO reporter Lyndsey Brollini reported this story as part of NextGenRadio: Indigenous, a week-long workshop from the Native American Journalists Association and NPR’s Next Generation Radio Project.
Education Week

Census Prompts Push for More Indigenous School Lessons

Many American Indians and Alaska Natives say the dramatic increase in their numbers recorded in last year’s census supports their long-standing argument that Indigenous history should get more ...
YES! Magazine

Centering Indigenous Languages in India’s Schools

On a warm April morning, in the minutes after roll call ends and before lessons begin, the classroom is buzzing with energy. It’s one of two classrooms in a primary school surrounded by sal trees deep ...
Los Angeles Times

The Indigenous Serrano language was all but gone. This man is resurrecting it

When Ernest Siva was a boy on the Morongo Reservation in Riverside County, he listened to the music and stories of his ancestors, who had lived in Southern California long before the land was called ...