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Revitalizing Apsáalooke – The Sheridan Press
The Crow Summer Institute — an annual multi-day workshop hosted by the Crow Language Consortium at Little Big Horn College — is back for its eleventh year, bringing together Crow language experts, beginner learners and people dedicated to helping the Crow language flourish.
Little Big Horn College brings back Crow Summer Institute – NBC Montana
The Little Big Horn College is bringing back the Crow Summer Institute for its 11th year in a row to Crow Agency. The Crow Summer Institute provides specialists a chance to teach and pass down the Apsáalooke, also known...
Cowlitz Indian Tribe and The Language Conservancy announce new resources to empower Salish language revitalization – The Wahkiakum County Eagle
The Cowlitz Indian Tribe and The Language Conservancy (TLC) have...
The Silent Death Of The World’s Languages, Another Consequence Of Climate Change – ACCIONA
Every 40 days a language dies. Words, expressions and meanings are lost forever. The cause? Linguists point to how the loss of languages is...
The Language Conservancy Unveils Largest Collection of Native American Language Learning Materials in the World at United Nations Forum
The Language Conservancy (TLC), a nonprofit dedicated to Indigenous language revitalization, today unveiled the world's largest collection of Native American language learning materials at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII).
Native communities want schools to teach Native languages. Now the White House is voicing support – The Hechinger Report
By the close of this century, at least half of the more than 7,000 languages spoken today will become extinct – and that’s according to the rosiest...
New Dakota language app helps bridge gap between elders and youth – Minnesota Reformer
Khloe Cavanaugh learned some Dakota words from her grandfather growing up on the Spirit Lake Reservation in North Dakota. He was one of the few fluent first language speakers on the reservation.
New Dakota dictionary app aims to preserve, revitalize language for young people – FOX 9
A new Dakota language dictionary recently launched in Minnesota represents a historic effort to preserve and revitalize the language by making it easier for young people to learn.
Saving the Dakota language, and saving a worldview – Star Tribune
When Joe Bendickson was growing up, first on the Lake Traverse Reservation near the Minnesota-South Dakota border and then in St. Paul, he did not speak Dakota, his ancestral tongue. Few did.
An effort to revive the Lakota language comes to Manhattan this weekend – Gothamist
New Yorkers rescue all manner of things – pets, people and lost things. This weekend, they have an opportunity to do something exceedingly rare: Help rescue a language.