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 ...

Ernest Siva is considered the last fluent speaker of Serrano, an Indigenous language. He is the author's mentor. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times) The root of my fascination with Indigenous ...

The program, along with other Indigenous Language programs at the university, faces difficulties as classes have been cut ...

Ernest Siva, 84, is one of the last remaining oral historians of the Indigenous Serrano language. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times) When Ernest Siva was a boy on the Morongo Reservation in ...

Through a video message, General Assembly President María Fernanda Espinosa called indigenous people “the bearers of millenary knowledge systems” where ancient and distinct languages are central. More ...

On its face, “Sooyii” is a story of resilience in the face of unimaginable loss. The independent film, directed by Krisztian Kery, centers on a young Blackfoot man in the 1700s who sees his people ...

Among other things, the survival of a language depends on the prosperity and political influence of the community which speaks it Some five to seven thousand languages are spoken in the world today ...

Transparent Language Online partners with 7000 Languages to offer 17 indigenous and endangered language courses created by and for indigenous communities. Shelby Brown (she/her/hers) is an editor for ...

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 ...

When it comes to digital access and internet technologies, some languages are still more equal than others. Speakers of majority languages, who type in English or text in Korean, assume their message ...