These things can feel so overwhelming that it becomes incredibly difficult to find the time to teach your child Igbo, Yoruba, Hausa, or any native language. Many modern children struggle to form ...

A 5-year-old names objects and animals in the Arapaho language in February 2017 as the tribe works to recover its culture and language on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming. WhenIwas in grade ...

When Native students are exposed to their cultural languages, their sense of well-being improves and they’re more likely to graduate, studies show. Similarly, culturally responsive teaching and ...

Roger Jacob started teaching Ichishkiin in Wapato in 2011. The principal at the time at PACE asked him to start teaching a ...

Native American Heritage Month, just concluded, represents an interesting tension for educators. There’s a drive to celebrate culture—and why not, when Native culture is so frequently overlooked or ...

Having taught for nearly a decade, I’ve worked through my share of classroom challenges. Nothing, however, prepared me for the toughest one: teaching my own children to speak Russian, my native ...

For many diasporic Latines, an inevitable argument arises around identity and language. If you don’t speak the primary language of your home country, whether that’s Spanish, French or Portuguese, the ...

When Joshuaa Allison-Burbank worked as a speech pathologist in his home community of the  Navajo Nation, he saw an effect of ...

A culturally relevant education -- Recognizing the students' backgrounds in culture and experience / David M. Davison -- Emphasizing the positive aspects of the culture -- Cooperative learning: it's ...

Students wishing to learn a Native American language, and those who want to teach one, could soon find their goals easier to accomplish. The Oklahoma Department of Education is considering a rule ...