[Danielle Boyer] is Ojibwe: Sault Ste Marie Tribe and passionate about preserving vanishing indigenous languages. She’s invented a shoulder-worn talking companion, called a SkoBot, to teach STEAM to ...
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 ...
After learning from Native American Yuchi families, Pertame elders and young mothers in Alice Springs are raising babies in a ...
South Eugene High graduating senior Isa Helms made Eugene 4J history by being the first to earn a Seal of Biliteracy in an ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Indigenous languages maintain millennia of distinct place-based knowledge, whether ecological, spiritual or relational.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...