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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…

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  • 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…

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  • 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…

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  • 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…

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  • 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…

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  • 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…

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