The Conversation

‘Learning language is part of rebuilding our nation’: singing the world alive, one First Nations word at a time

A precious message for all Australians has been created by First Nations people with publication of Words to Sing the World Alive. In a gentle, generous and learned collaboration between The Poet’s ...

These First Nations students are teaching themselves — and their peers — to speak Cree

Vern Lewis is in his first year teaching Aboriginal studies at a Frog Lake First Nation high school, and he's putting his computer science skills to work by using technology to teach tradition.
The Conversation

Australia’s Eurovision entry this year is the first to sing in First Nations language: meet Electric Fields

The act representing Australia at this year’s Eurovision contest has sadly not qualified for the grand final. Yet for Zaachariaha Fielding and Michael Ross, the duo that makes up Electric Fields, it’s ...
MarketWatch

Government of Canada supports the efforts of the First Peoples' Cultural Council to revitalize Indigenous languages in British Columbia

The MarketWatch News Department was not involved in the creation of this content. The First Peoples' Cultural Council is the First Nations Regionally Designated Organization for British Columbia. As ...
CBC.ca

Yukon First Nation hires people to learn Indigenous language and become teachers

The Champagne and Aishihik First Nations in Yukon are taking an unusual approach toward getting students to participate in a Southern Tutchone language immersion program — they're paying them. The ...
PBS

Preserving the Language

Minnesota First Nations is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet, Roku, Samsung Smart ...
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 ...
KVIA

Former First Nations chief voices Disney’s first Ojibwe language Star Wars movie

BARRIE, ONTARIO (CTV Network) — A First Nations elder and veteran is helping to bring the Ojibwe language to a well-known film for the first time. Jeff Monague, former chief of Beausoleil First Nation ...