After only two years, a new language class has hundreds of students connecting to their culture

When Herbert Smith speaks Diné Bizaad, the Navajo language, he immediately feels connected to his culture and ancestors.

Miluk language isn't gone. Meet a South Eugene grad who speaks it

South Eugene High graduating senior Isa Helms made Eugene 4J history by being the first to earn a Seal of Biliteracy in an ...
In These Times

In North Carolina, Immigrants Resist the U.S. “Language Graveyard”

Students sing a song during their weekly Hñähñu class at the Porvenir Community Center in Emma, North Carolina. The classes are part of an effort to revitalize the Hñähñu language and culture among ...
Education Week

A Native Community Revitalized a Language. Here’s How a School District Carries It On

When Native students are exposed to their cultural languages, their sense of well-being improves and they’re more likely to graduate, studies show. Similarly, culturally responsive teaching and ...
CNN

This Inuk woman is teaching her Indigenous language online to help others reconnect with Inuit culture

Like many Indigenous people of North America, Miali Coley-Sudlovenick fears that her native language is dying. European colonization left Inuit struggling to preserve their culture and tongue in an ...
Yale Environment 360

Lector of Cherokee is Yale’s first faculty member in an Indigenous language

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 ...
Mashable

Stunning animated game helps teach endangered Aboriginal language

Words are the binds that keep communities together, but many of Australia's First Languages are rapidly being lost. When combined with new technologies, however, they can be preserved and spread in ...
Global Voices Online

Atayal language digital activist Tapas Katu: ‘Using Indigenous languages is completely normal’

Rising Voices, in collaboration with Taiwan's New Bloom Magazine and the Indigenous Youth Front, hosted a conference, “Digital Initiatives for Indigenous Languages of Taiwan,” on June 28, 2025, in ...
YES! Magazine

Centering Indigenous Languages in India’s Schools

On a warm April morning, in the minutes after roll call ends and before lessons begin, the classroom is buzzing with energy. It’s one of two classrooms in a primary school surrounded by sal trees deep ...
Education Week

Census Prompts Push for More Indigenous School Lessons

Many American Indians and Alaska Natives say the dramatic increase in their numbers recorded in last year’s census supports their long-standing argument that Indigenous history should get more ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Indigenous verse in national anthem considered to preserve Aboriginal languages

Suggestions of including an Aboriginal verse in the national anthem and dual signage in New South Wales have been identified as ways of protecting Australia's first people's languages. The NSW ...