Native American Heritage Month, just concluded, represents an interesting tension for educators. There’s a drive to celebrate culture—and why not, when Native culture is so frequently overlooked or ...

Linguistics experts are turning to cutting-edge technologies to revitalize threatened Native American languages—and rejuvenate generations of Indigenous tradition—through new approaches such as ...

Patrick Del Percio first showed an interest in learning the Cherokee language at the age of seven, when their family visited a living history museum portraying a 1760s Cherokee village. Del Percio ...

I was hired at the University of Colorado Boulder in 1995 as a language professor. I relocated from Hawaii, where I had learned the Hawaiian language. When I arrived in Colorado, I decided I needed to ...

New research shows that a majority of Indigenous languages in America are endangered. NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Native American language preservationist Alaina Tahlate. Language researchers just ...

Ashleigh Surma (second right) assists Elva Case (left), Linda Lupe (second left) and Joycelene Johnson (right) in recording Indigenous languages in Bloomington ...