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It contains some words from medieval Spanish, but it also includes pronunciations that developed in New Mexico's villages and words unique to its geographical and historical place at a crossroads of American civilizations

If you ask Chickasaw linguist Joshua Hinson what his favorite Chickasaw word is, he’ll grin and open his dictionary. His finger will slide past the entry where his Chickasaw name, Lokosh, is listed and point to the word just below.

Since 1996, the Yuchi Language Project has been fighting to preserve the language of the Yuchi people.

His grandmother was forbidden to speak Lingít in school. Now, school is helping him reclaim it.

“We’re at a point where we have a lot of non-Crow speakers, but at the same time there’s still a lot of us who speak."

Lark Real Bird teaches Crow language and culture classes at Lodge Grass Elementary School and Native art and beading classes at Lodge Grass High School.

Event created to combat the threat of losing more than 3,000 languages by the end of the century

The Northwest Indian Language Institute’s efforts to preserve Indigenous languages are now supported by a new grant from The Roundhouse Foundation that will fund a needs analysis and tribal outreach programs

Nonprofit organization Manidoo Ogitigaan joins a growing effort to share traditional cultural instruction and Ojibwe language classes