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 ...

Alaska has a “linguistic emergency”, according to the Alaskan governor Bill Walker. A report warned earlier this year that all of the state’s 20 Native American languages might cease to exist by the ...

WASHINGTON — The White House Council on Native American Affairs is leaving behind a blueprint for the revitalization of tribal languages for Congress and the next administration. The spiral-bound ...

The following story is the first in a series of profiles on the recipients of the Arts & Sciences Faculty Grants Fund. The Faculty Grants Fund provides support for A&S faculty research, conference ...

A 50,000 year-old indigenous Native American tribe that has weathered the conquistadors, numerous wars with the Europeans, the American Revolution and the Civil War is now fighting to preserve its ...

A few years back, Sage Brook Carbone was attending a powwow at the Mashantucket Western Pequot reservation in Connecticut when she noticed signs in the Pequot language. Carbone, a citizen of the ...

More than 2,400 languages around the world are in danger of extinction, according to Unesco, and the US is second only to India in having the highest number of endangered languages. Sikumi is the ...

Neuroscientists and other experts have pinpointed key differences — and some striking similarities — in the brains of people who speak vastly different languages. Something that is less clear, however ...

A Native American schoolgirl was suspended from playing in a basketball game as a punishment for speaking in her native language. Miranda Washinawatok, 12, was told off by her teacher for saying ‘I ...

When US military codes kept being broken by the Germans in WW1 a Native American tribe came to the rescue. They just spoke their own language - which baffled the enemy - and paved the way for other ...