I was hired at the University of Colorado Boulder in 1995 as a language professor. I relocated from Hawaii, where I had learned the Hawaiian language. When I arrived in Colorado, I decided I needed to ...

Numbers of Choctaws who speak the native language have dwindled, but a program is designed to turn that around.

As the Miami and Lenape peoples are rebuilding their languages, they're gaining a better understanding of how their ancestors ...

One of the oldest questions in the history of psychology is about how language influences the mind. Does the language we use impact how we see the world? We know that many of our mental processes are ...

OGDEN — While working on her clinical hours at the Northern Navajo Medical Center in Shiprock, New Mexico, Kendra Ellison noticed a disturbing trend. More and more elderly patients in the Navajo ...

Halito, Chim Achukma (Hello, how are you?) Another Native American Heritage month has almost passed, and I hope it means something to everyone. In several days I’ll put away my beautiful, purple ...

Over decades, facilities like the Thomas Indian School tried to erase Native culture. Now the Senecas want the state's help ...

Patna: Even as interest among young people in learning foreign languages has grown significantly in recent years, native ...