Columbus Day is recognized by many people as Indigenous Peoples' Day. A foreign language app with more than 300 million users is marking Columbus Day, which is alternatively recognized as Indigenous ...

As you walk through the halls of Navajo Preparatory School, you will see students from across Diné Bikeyyah— the Navajo Nation — often wearing a tsiiyééł, a traditional Diné hair bun, Nike sneakers, ...

Ofelia Zepeda, a renowned poet and linguist, grew up in poverty working in Arizona’s cotton fields. Zepeda became a leading expert on the Tohono O’odham language and a regents professor at the ...

The robot is shaped like a soup can with a little domed head, animal ears and a charming, rounded body. Like a parrot in pirate lore, the robot is intended to perch on a wearer’s shoulder, listening ...

Get fearless, uncompromising truth in your inbox. Subscribe to The Real News. Sign up If you walk down the street in Paraguay, you will hear people speaking Spanish, the official language of most of ...

Grade-school age Maya talks with interpreter Angela Blackdeer at the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community Wacipi, an annual powwow held near Prior Lake on Aug. 16.

WELLPINIT, Wash. – Felicia Pichette was overjoyed the first time her grandson told her “no.” It wasn’t what he said, but how he said it: in Spokane Salish, the endangered Indigenous language of the ...

Like many of the young people in her Indigenous Anishinaabe community in the upper peninsula of Michigan, Danielle Boyer grew up speaking only a little of her people’s native language, ...

A new Ghana–Russia literary exchange programme aimed at promoting indigenous languages, cultural understanding, and literacy among young readers has been launched in Accra.

Sir: I have witnessed the powerful role language plays in shaping a child’s learning journey. Using indigenous languages in primary schools presents both powerful opportunity and complex challenges.

The Ministry of Education has highlighted possible careers for Grade 10 learners as they transition into Senior School, ...

Frontline communities telling their own stories is essential for holding world leaders accountable to commitments made at ...