CNET

Indigenous Peoples' Day: Learn an indigenous or endangered language with this app

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 ...
Forbes

For Indigenous Peoples, Language Is Life

During the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Indigenous Nations across the country like mine began to feel it’s disproportionate impact on our communities. Then, we started losing the most precious ...
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 ...
The Brown Daily Herald

Students, instructors reflect on independent study for Indigenous language learners

This semester, six students are participating in a group independent study project to learn the Indigenous languages of their communities. Led by Nitana Hicks Greendeer ’03, visiting assistant ...
unr.edu

Snapshots of language loss and revitalization: Paiute classes at the University and Stewart Indian School

As a linguist who works on Native American languages, I was certainly excited to learn that Feb. 21 is International Mother Language Day. Recognizing the strong link between language and culture and ...
MPR News

Minnesota schools are not meeting requirements for American Indian language and culture classes

The law requires certain districts to offer language and culture classes, but the report found districts would need to hire ...
Rochester Institute of Technology

Empowering the Next Generation: The Push to Preserve Indigenous Language

A collaborative effort between the Future Stewards Program and the RIT Department of Modern Languages and Culture has resulted in the Indigenous language and culture education, preservation and ...
The Harvard Crimson

Learn Ainu, an Indigenous language from Japan, with Drops

Almost every 14 days, a language dies; that’s about 26 languages a year. And over 2,500 Indigenous languages are currently in danger of disappearing forever — that’s more than a third of our world’s ...
Las Vegas Review-Journal

Reclaiming their words

Growing up in the Las Vegas Paiute tribe, part of the Southern Paiute Nation, Kenny Anderson didn’t give much thought to learning Nuwu, the Southern Paiute language. Neither did other kids he knew. “A ...
Los Angeles Times

These Indigenous people are fighting to keep their languages alive

For many diasporic Latines, an inevitable argument arises around identity and language. If you don’t speak the primary language of your home country, whether that’s Spanish, French or Portuguese, the ...
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 ...