ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi Kuhi Lima is a growing initiative focused on creating hand signs rooted in ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi, cultural knowledge, and community practice. Growing up on Oʻahu in the 1950s, Maile ...

Decades of forced removals and re-education resulted in the fading of the Miami and Lenape languages over time. The Miami's last fluent native speaker died around the mid-20th century, so those ...

Isa Helms is the first student in Eugene 4J to earn an Oregon Seal of Biliteracy for an Indigenous language. Isa speaks miluk (Coos) and is hoping her accomplishment will inspire other young tribal ...

As the advent of smartphones threatened to drown out local NT languages, one researcher came up with a creative solution – and it brought the centuries old languages into the digital era. Find out ...

Cardiologist Dr. Miles Marchand, a member of Syilx Okanagan Nation, is bringing specialist heart-health care to remote Indigenous communities. Photo for The Tyee by Michelle Gamage. An Indigenous-led ...

BRANTFORD — The Ontario government is investing a historic $57 million in Indigenous Institutes across the province, the largest single investment in Indigenous higher education in the province’s ...

Ottawa is allocating more than $14.3 million for arts, culture, heritage and language initiatives across the Yukon, announcing the funding during an event at the Yukon Arts Centre on March 13.

This article was updated on March 6, 2026 to include a response from Greenfield Union School District. Este artículo está disponible en español. Léelo en español. When a mother in the small city of ...

An accredited university dedicated to Indigenous studies could welcome its first students in the fall of 2027 to the former campus of Wells College. The nonprofit Hiawatha Institute for Indigenous ...

A smartphone game is part of a push to save critically endangered Nyiyaparli in the Pilbara, while an NT radio station helps keep Yolŋu matha strong Bringing Indigenous languages back from the brink – ...

Inuit and Métis also seek to close gaps on housing and health in budget asks. The head of the Assembly of First Nations says it’s encouraging the federal government to keep investing in infrastructure ...

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