Oregonian

Oregon’s Indigenous language institute continues to thrive as it crosses 25-year mark

Decades of government policies aimed at forcibly assimilating Native Americans, guided by the notion of “kill the Indian and save the man,” included generations of Indigenous children ripped away from ...
Statesman Journal

‘My language has value’: Oregon institute honors Indigenous languages

Decades of government policies aimed at forcibly assimilating Native Americans, guided by the notion of “kill the Indian and save the man,” included generations of Indigenous children ripped away from ...
Axios on MSN

Connecting Native youth and elders to save Indigenous language

A new storytelling project aims to connect Native American youth with their elders and preserve Indigenous languages and ...
Rochester Institute of Technology

Empowering the Next Generation: The Push to Preserve Indigenous Language

A collaborative effort between the Future Stewards Program and the RIT Department of Modern Languages and Culture has resulted in the Indigenous language and culture education, preservation and ...
OPB

Oregon Native language institute marks 25th anniversary, gets new funding

This story originally appeared on Underscore News. Decades of government policies aimed at forcibly assimilating Native Americans, guided by the notion of “kill the Indian and save the man,” included ...
Yahoo

New Center to Help Lead National Indigenous Language Revitalization Efforts

A new center at the University of Arizona is one of only four designated by the U.S. Department of Education to lead a collective effort to empower tribal communities across the country to revitalize ...
Miami University

National Breath of Life Archival Institute for Indigenous Languages wins international award for helping tribes keep their languages alive

Bo Johnson from the Confederated Tribes of Siletz in Oregon wanted to know the meaning of the Siletz prayers he heard spoken during ceremonies. Kate Pewenofkit Briner gets stopped on the street in ...
The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Software Preserves Native Languages

A New Mexico charity is harnessing modern tools in the struggle to revitalize some very old and endangered languages. Of the more than 400 languages that were once spoken by Native Americans in the ...
University of Nevada, Reno

CoLang 2026 to be held in Reno with $247,926 National Science Foundation award to support collaborative language research

The College of Liberal Arts to host institute that aims to preserve Indigenous and endangered languages with $247,926 NSF ...
Education Week

Keeping Indigenous Languages Alive

I hope you’ve gotten the message already that although I recognize the benefits for anyone living in this country to learn English, I don’t believe English should be valued over anyone’s native ...
Alaska Public Media

Want to learn endangered Alaska Indigenous languages? There's an app for that.

Sealaska Heritage Institute’s new language games app. (Photo by Yvonne Krumrey/KTOO) Sealaska Heritage Institute released new language learning apps in X̱aad Kíl and Shm’algyack this month. The apps ...