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Crow language app launches in effort save culture – Great Falls Tribune
During the 1800s and 1900s, Native American children were forced to attend boarding schools, where they were punished for speaking Indigenous languages.
Saving an endangered language – The Sheridan Press
Board games, picture books, flashcards and posters — all of these things are now available to Crow children in their native language, when 100 years ago, children were sent to boarding schools and punished for...
Disappearing language of the Daly recorded online for future generations – The Canberra Times
Malak Malak traditional owners from the Daly River region, Northern Territory, have funded the development of a language app containing...
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...