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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 that's 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 that's 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 American. At 95, Barnett is the last tribal elder who speaks the Yuchi language fluently — which mean...
Even before the pandemic, it was a race against time to preserve Native American languages across the country. COVID-19 has accelerated this.