Nineteenth and early 20th–century written notes on spoken Native American languages are valuable in the effort to sustain and revive these languages after a long history of suppression and loss. Many ...

The preschool children sit with legs crossed, squirming a little, as their language class begins at a Native American Head Start preschool on a reservation in Shasta County. “Hestum,” says the teacher ...

(The name of Miami, Florida, comes from the language of the unrelated Calusa ... neglected their native tongue. By the 1960s, the last fluent speaker was dead, and Tim McCoy grew up without ...

The laws enact measures to improve financial accountability and elevate the role of tribal governments in Indian Education ...