Decades of government policies aimed at forcibly assimilating Native Americans, guided by the notion of “kill the Indian and save the man,” included generations of Indigenous children ripped away from ...
The Myaamia Center has been awarded a $2.1 million grant from the Mellon Foundation to expand the work of the National Breath of Life Archival Institute for Indigenous Languages. The institute — based ...
Decades of government policies aimed at forcibly assimilating Native Americans, guided by the notion of “kill the Indian and save the man,” included generations of Indigenous children ripped away from ...
When the federal government set up boarding schools in the 19th century to assimilate Native American children into American culture, one of the objectives was to get them to turn away from the use of ...
A collaborative effort between the Future Stewards Program and the RIT Department of Modern Languages and Culture has resulted in the Indigenous language and culture education, preservation and ...
Handbook 1. Awakening our languages: an introduction -- Handbook 2. Learning about language resources --Handbook 3. Conducting a language survey -- Handbook 4. Envisioning a language program -- ...
For Estelle Balsirow ’26, language is more than a field of study: it’s a reclamation. Balsirow, a Kalmyk-American linguistics major, is one of the first Yale students to study Kalmyk — an endangered ...