Researchers analyzed 262 academic and community-based studies from Canada, the United States, Australia and New Zealand, and determined 78 per cent of them connected Indigenous language vitality with ...

Filmmakers are increasingly centering Indigenous languages in their work, with efforts such as last year’s “Soojii” (“Creatures”), made entirely in the Blackfoot language of northern ...

In 2019, Ethnologue reported that “of the 115 Indigenous languages spoken in the U.S. today, two are healthy, 34 are in danger, and 79 will go extinct within a generation without serious intervention.

Effort to recover Indigenous language also revitalizes culture, history and identity Linguists have estimated that prior to European settlement, there were 300 Indigenous languages spoken in the U.S.

EMR 151: “Quechua, Indigenous language revitalization and Global Indigeneity” examines language as a tool to access Indigenous cultures, traditions of knowledge, and expressions of self.

But Indigenous language communities don’t share this same confidence. Get On This Day In History delivered straight to your inbox ️ each day! Sign up here.

Language preservation is another impactful way to connect with Native heritage. Every two weeks, an Indigenous language disappears ― a loss that erases centuries of cultural knowledge.

It wasn’t until the 1990s that teaching Indigenous language once again became legal in the U.S. with the passage of the Native American Languages Act, which repudiated past government policies ...

A number of Indian states have announced efforts to teach Indigenous students in their own languages, and some have developed textbooks, teacher-training materials, and digital lessons to that effect.

Oregon is home to over 30,000 people who exclusively speak Indigenous languages, many of whom perform essential labor in agriculture or other jobs. These are our neighbors, friends, relatives and ...

Duke will offer a series of Cherokee language courses this fall, marking the first time an Indigenous language will be taught at the University. Announced July 23, the course series begins in fall ...

An indigenous language from South America's extreme south has all but vanished after the death of 93-year-old Cristina Calderon, its last living speaker and guardian of its ancestral culture ...