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Songs are historical documents, narrating the histories of our origins, geographies, relationships and more. Songs and language are so intimately tied and their survivance depends on each other. 

The project is designed to support initiatives that develop Taltan proficiencies by making language accessible.

The Eastern Shoshone tribe has reached out to a national language preservation nonprofit to help build a dictionary. Wyoming Public Radio's Taylar Stagner has more about how the Shoshone language is being passed down to the younger generation.

/PRNewswire/ -- The Stoney Education Authority (SEA), with support from The Language Conservancy, is releasing historic Stoney Nakoda language learning...

/PRNewswire/ -- The Stoney Education Authority (SEA), with support from The Language Conservancy, is releasing historic Stoney Nakoda language learning...

Preserving the Stoney Nakoda language is the purpose behind a new resource created by the Stoney Education Authority (SEA) with support from The Language Conservancy.

CROW AGENCY, Mont. — Our neighbors living on the Crow Reservation seem to have something thats becoming increasingly more common and concerning: a dwindling number of Crow people who can

CROW AGENCY, Mont. — Our neighbors living on the Crow Reservation seem to have something thats becoming increasingly more common and concerning: a dwindling number of Crow people who can

POLITICO ‘Race against time’: Pandemic propels fight to save Native American languages Covid hit Indian Country hard. As elders die, tribes are fighting to preserve their languages. Congress is sending cash. Maxine Wildcat Barnett at an event to celebrate her 94th birthday. | Yuchi Language Project Link Copied The news of Maxine Wildcat Barnett’s Covid hospitalization in November shook the Yuchi community of Sapulpa, a small Oklahoma city named after its first settler, a Creek Native Ame...

Even before the pandemic, it was a race against time to preserve Native American languages across the country. COVID-19 has accelerated this.