She's one of only a few fluent speakers of the Native American language. But she faces pushback from both outsiders and her own family. The U.N. estimates that every two weeks, an Indigenous ...

Picture books like these show Native North American and Native Canadian cultures incorporating tradition, culture, and language in the ... A Native American Family Story by Kevin Noble Maillard ...

The government actively worked to separate Native American families through boarding schools ... strip future generations of their ancestral languages, teachings, and practices.

The Native American Languages Act protects the rights and ... Nygren and the Navajo Division for Children and Family Services launched a Diné Bizaad literacy campaign. The program will focus ...

Before ICWA, public and private agencies were removing 25 to 35 percent of Native American ... families have a right to stay together, to care for their children, and to preserve tribal culture by ...

"An evaluation of the Dodge Family College of Art and Sciences ... has been a national leader in stopping the erasure of Native American languages, and is shocked that there are suddenly forces ...

Indigenous communities today are still dealing with the trauma of boarding schools, which attempted to eradicate Native American cultures ... "You can't speak your language.

Many died of disease, and their bodies frequently were not returned to their families ... the reflorescence of endangered Native American languages, and successful efforts to expose the massive ...

“The return of these eleven children to their Native American families is one of the Army ... was cut and they were forbidden to speak their language or practice their customs and they took ...

The Native American Youth and Family Center expands housing for Native ... khwat yaka haws, meaning Auntie’s Place in the Chinook language, provides culturally-centered services like first ...