Faculty at the University of Oklahoma are reacting to what they say is a push from the administration to remove the foreign language requirements from the university’s degree tracks. The College of ...

As Native language programs flourish in classrooms, Indian centers, tribal meeting rooms and online, President Donald Trump issued an executive order over the weekend declaring English would be the ...

The following story is the first in a series of profiles on the recipients of the Arts & Sciences Faculty Grants Fund. The Faculty Grants Fund provides support for A&S faculty research, conference ...

I was hired at the University of Colorado Boulder in 1995 as a language professor. I relocated from Hawaii, where I had learned the Hawaiian language. When I arrived in Colorado, I decided I needed to ...

The University Insider is The Daily’s first faculty and staff-oriented newsletter. This weekly newsletter will give U-M faculty and staff the ability to see the most important issues on campus and in ...

A New Mexico charity is harnessing modern tools in the struggle to revitalize some very old and endangered languages. Of the more than 400 languages that were once spoken by Native Americans in the ...

Some scholars estimate that at the time of Columbus, there were roughly 300 native languages spoken in North America. Many of them are now extinct. But David White, an electrician in the small town of ...

In Roger Jacob's class on Friday before winter break, students were reciting an Ichishkiin food blessing, followed by a written quiz. Ichishkiin is a traditional language spoken by the Yakama people, ...

Over the past two days, visitors to the Sam Noble Museum of Natural History were greeted with the sight of traditional indigenous dress and the sounds of native languages filling the air. The Oklahoma ...

President Donald Trump issued an executive order declaring English as the nation's official language, but Native leaders dispute its reach. For many years, the federal government tried to erase Native ...