Tag: Language

• Via Indianz.com: Cherokee tribes work to keep language alive for new generations

  The Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in North Carolina are working to preserve the Cherokee language for future generations. Only about 3,000 Cherokee Nation citizens speak the language on a regular basis, language program manager Roy Boney Jr. told The Wall Street Journal. That’s less than 1 percent of…

  March 2, 2016

  Article

  Cherokee, Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, fluent speakers, John Standingdeer, Language, North Carolina, Oklahoma

• Via ICTMN.com: Learn Your Language: Lakota Summer Institute Coming Up

  The 10thannual Lakota Summer Institute will be held June 6 to 24 at Sitting Bull College in Fort Yates, North Dakota. “For me, this was a spiritual journey which I will never forget,” Rick Williams, a 2015 LSI participant, told the Tribal College Journal. Hundreds of Lakota learners and educators have attended LSI in the…

  February 18, 2016

  Announcement, Language

  Dakota, Fort Yates, Lakhotiyapi Summer Institute, Lakota, Lakota Language Consortium, Language, Language education, Language Immersion, LSI, Sitting Bull College, Standing Rock Sioux Tribe

• Via Indian Country Today: Technology Helps Teach Navajo in New Ways

  An excerpt: Learning a new language can be hard, especially when the language is as scarce and complicated as the Navajo language. Aresta La Russo, a visiting scholar at the University of Arizona, has taught Navajo since 2010. Over the years, La Russo said she has seen technology improve the way she teaches students and…

  February 4, 2016

  Article

  Dine College, Language, language learning software, Navajo, Rosetta Stone, Technology, University of Arizona

• North Dakota storyteller receives major artistic honor

  FLASHER, N.D. – Mary Louise Defender Wilson has received many honors and awards in her 85 years. But the Dakotah and Hidatsa traditionalist and storyteller said she was surprised to learn she had received a $50,000 United States Artists fellowship, one of the most prestigious arts fellowships in the country. “Honors and recognition have been…

  December 9, 2015

  Article

  Cultural Traditions, Language, Mary Louise Defender Wilson, North Dakota Council on the Arts, Sioux, Standing Rock, traditional storyteller, United States Artists fellowship

• Guest Post from TEDNA Board Member Kerry Venegas on California AB 163 and Teacher Credentialling

  Kerry Venegas is the Director of the Tribal Education Department for the Hoopa Valley Tribe, and is providing an update on California AB 163, which expands Native teaching credential authorization for Tribes that passed as AB 544 in 2009. AB 163 is still in the legislative process, but doesn’t seem to have any major roadblocks. Even…

  Matthew Campbell

  April 1, 2015

  Announcement, Article, Culture, Discussion, Language, Legal, Politics

  AB 163, California, Culture, Language, Teacher Credentialling

• Alaska Native News: Native Americans Work to Save Language

  An excerpt: FORT YATES, NORTH DAKOTA—One evening a week, young and old gather in Michael Moore’s classroom in Fort Yates, North Dakota, to learn Lakota — the language of their Sioux tribal ancestors. For many of the students here at Sitting Bull College, it’s a tongue their great grandparents spoke fluently at home. But that…

  December 15, 2014

  Article, Language

  Barack Obama, Education, Indian Education, Lakota, Language, Native Americans, Native Americans in the United States, Sioux