Language Conservancy Update – Cowlitz Tribal Newspaper
The Language Conservancy is the foremost organization currently working with endangered languages in North America. The Cowlitz Indian Tribe started a contract with them in January 2020...
Stoney Nakoda word collection helps preserve language for future generations – CBC News
Stoney Nakoda elder Terry Rider leans forward and carefully pronounces a Stoney word into a microphone. It's a big responsibility for him and the four others gathered in one of several booths in a back room at the Stoney...
Ĩyãħé Nakoda, a language reborn – RMO Today
Two weeks, 30 Stoney Nakoda Nation members and a goal of 15,000 words. Working with the Stoney Education Authority and the non-profit U.S.-based Language Conservancy program, elders are calling the Rapid Word Collection event at the Stoney Nakoda Resort and Casino an...
Revolutionary Method Is Helping Preserve The Endangered Stoney Nakoda Language – Alberta Native News
The Stoney Education Authority with The Language Conservancy is hosting a Rapid Word Collection event in Alberta that started earlier this...
Inside the Fight to Save Alaska’s 20 Native Languages from Dying Out – VICE News
Stephanie Hinz belongs to a generation of Alaskans who never learned their native language. “Can you count to five? Yes,” she said, listing the numbers in Gwich’in. “I never got nine and ten.”
Ho-Chunk Nation Language Division’s Rapid Word Collection Workshop Helps Revitalize An Endangered Language – Madison365
The Ho-Chunk Nation Language Division partnered up with The Language Conservancy (TLC) organization to help revitalize our endangered...
Ho-Chunk Elders Document Language for Future Generations – WXOW
Indigenous languages are slowly disappearing. There are 7,800 Ho-Chunk in the Wisconsin area and only 50 elders still speak fluent Ho-Chunk. In order to preserve the Ho-Chunk language the tribe enlisted the help of...
Crow community wakes up its language – Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Like most tribal communities in North America, the Crow Tribe in Montana faces challenges in keeping its indigenous language alive, but also finds that the work of revitalizing language brings the community together.
‘LEAP’ forward for Lakota language – UND Today
Anne Walker’s first licensed teaching job out of college was on a Navajo Indian reservation in New Mexico. She spent three years there, setting the stage for a career and a passion in multicultural teaching and learning that has taken her as far as Africa and back.
10 days, 10,000 words, one book – Big Horn County News
The Crow Language Consortium, The Language Conservancy and Little Big Horn College have come together to create a new Crow language dictionary. Local residents involved include Roanne Hill, Dr. Janine...