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.

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.

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...

“Excuse me, are you Kevin?” The man has long braided hair, a rolling suitcase, and an armful of colorful hoops. We’re in the lobby of the Monroe County Public Library. He responds with a politely blank “Yes.” Of course...

The Language Conservancy is dedicated to protecting endangered Native American languages. John McWhorter talks with CEO Wil Meya about how the organization fights language loss.

The southern Great Lakes region—Illinois, Indiana, and parts of Wisconsin, Ohio, and Michigan—is the traditional homeland of the Miami people, speakers of the Miami language.

Even though he’s 79 year-old, Rufus White still remembers his first day of kindergarten like it was yesterday. Mainly because he and several other students were kicked out of class.

Friday Sept. 30, a crowd of linguistics students, professors and other interested parties gathered in Commonwealth Auditorium to learn...

When a language disappears, so does the culture of its people. Many Native American tribes face the troubling prospect of losing every song, story, value and piece of history once the few remaining speakers of...