Tag: indigenous
Alaska’s First and Second
Daniel Ward asks Brandon Locke and Victor Santos to discuss how Anchorage School District is leading the revitalization of the U.S.’ second-most widely spoken...
Crow Summer Institute
The Crow Summer Institute is occurring in Crow Agency, Montana, at the Little Big Horn College starting June 3rd through June 21st of 2019....
Global Voices: I Dream That My Language Lives
Over the course of 50 weeks in 2019, Global Voices plans to host 50 Latin American language activists on its @ActLenguas Twitter handle. This...
Languages, Plants, and People
K. David Harrison on Environmental Linguistics
This is the first of an ongoing series of articles that Language Magazine will be publishing to call attention to...
Official Launch of International Year of Indigenous Languages
The official launch of the International Year of Indigenous Languages (IYIL), co-organized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the...
Alberta invests $6M in Indigenous language education
Alberta’s government plans to spend $6 million dollars over the next two years to help establish a new program that will bring Indigenous language...
Mix of Japanese-Indigenous Languages Survives in Taiwan
In the town of Hanhsi in the northeastern mountains here, where many of the Atayal indigenous people reside, a language resembling Japanese -- "Yilan...
Alaskans First to Receive Seal of Biliteracy in Native Tongue
The Lower Kuskokwim School District (LKSD) is roughly the size of West Virginia, with 22 schools spread across a remote area of Alaska’s Yukon...
Yolngu Album Tops Australian Charts
Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu has made history by becoming the first artist to top the Australian ARIA charts while singing in an indigenous language, just...
Drums Amplify Speech Across Amazon
The Amazonian Bora people mimic the rhythm of their language for communication over large...
