As Native language programs flourish in classrooms, Indian centers, tribal meeting rooms and online, President Donald Trump issued an executive order over the weekend declaring English would be the ...

LAS VEGAS — In a windowless conference room in a Las Vegas casino, about three dozen people are swishing their fingers across iPads, trying out test versions of new apps and screening for glitches.

When he began recording the words of a Native speaker 40 years ago, linguist Noel Rude had no idea that his life’s work would form the foundation of the first dictionary for the Umatilla language.

The White House is launching a new effort to help tribes preserve their languages. A memorandum signed on Monday directs the Department of Interior, Education, and others to identify ways to better ...

Erin Debenport works with indigenous tribes in the Rio Grande Valley to help preserve their languages. But she has to keep her work a secret. Debenport, an assistant professor of linguistic and ...

This classroom at first sounds like any other, as fourth- and fifth- graders belt out the Pledge of Allegiance. But then they slip seamlessly into Lushootseed, one of Washington state’s native ...

Tribal languages all across the continent, on the brink of disappearing as fluent speakers pass away, have become the object of growing efforts at preservation. The Cheyenne, the Blackfeet, the Gros ...

Experts point to the early- to mid-1970s as the effort's start and say it got a boost when the Native American Languages Act, passed in 1990, declared the United States was committed to ensuring the ...

LAS VEGAS – In a windowless conference room in a Las Vegas casino, about three dozen people are swishing their fingers across iPads, trying out test versions of new apps and screening for glitches.