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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 ...

Before European colonization, there were 14 language families in what would become the State of Oregon, according to National Geographic. Today, that number is down to five. The trend of language ...

The University of Arizona’s new West Region Native American Language Resource Center is leading a national effort to empower tribal communities in language revitalization. The resource center received ...

In 2021, the Bodéwadmimwen language was in danger of disappearing. The tongue traditionally spoken by Potawatomi Native Americans had only eight people who’d learned it as their first language, and ...

The Departments of the Interior, Education, and Health and Human Services have announced a plan to revitalize Native languages, addressing the federal government's role in erasing them through forced ...

This story originally appeared on Underscore News. Decades of government policies aimed at forcibly assimilating Native Americans, guided by the notion of “kill the Indian and save the man,” included ...

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 ...

A food delivery driver in Alabama is facing charges after police say he delivered alcohol to a teenager who was later drowned. Israel says it intercepted Iranian missiles launched Sunday, first since ...

When he was a younger man, Unkechaug Nation Chief Harry Wallace had a vision. Wallace said he was told of three sacred bundles — one of which was the talking sticks, a tool of Indigenous democracy ...

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To support the revitalization, protection, preservation and reclamation of Indigenous languages across the United States, the Biden-Harris administration released a 10-year National Plan on Native ...