Transparent Language Online partners with 7000 Languages to offer 17 indigenous and endangered language courses created by and for indigenous communities. Shelby Brown (she/her/hers) is an editor for ...
This summer, Amy E. Chalán Vacacela ’24 opened the course catalog and clicked straight to the Ethnicity, Migration, Rights offerings. When EMR 151: “Quechua, Indigenous language revitalization and ...
As with almost all kinds of other schooling, the pandemic forced some classes in Indigenous languages to shut down. But it's also spurred development of virtual options to reach and recruit students.
Almost every 14 days, a language dies; that’s about 26 languages a year. And over 2,500 Indigenous languages are currently in danger of disappearing forever — that’s more than a third of our world’s ...
Growing up in the Las Vegas Paiute tribe, part of the Southern Paiute Nation, Kenny Anderson didn’t give much thought to learning Nuwu, the Southern Paiute language. Neither did other kids he knew. “A ...
Patrick Del Percio first showed an interest in learning the Cherokee language at the age of seven, when their family visited a living history museum portraying a 1760s Cherokee village. Del Percio ...
Decades of government policies aimed at forcibly assimilating Native Americans, guided by the notion of “kill the Indian and save the man,” included generations of Indigenous children ripped away from ...
Students at a NSW Central Coast preschool start their day talking about their feelings in Darkinjung, the local Aboriginal language. Darkinjung is the predominant First Nations group in the region, ...
The millennia-old language of Gumbaynggirr was critically endangered. Now, a series of tourism initiatives are helping to ...
A group of students from Universiti Teknologi Petronas in Perak has organized a webinar to promote Malaysia's indigenous languages. Global Voices interviewed them about how they maximized digital ...