Ernest Siva is considered the last fluent speaker of Serrano, an Indigenous language. He is the author's mentor. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times) The root of my fascination with Indigenous ...

When it comes to digital access and internet technologies, some languages are still more equal than others. Speakers of majority languages, who type in English or text in Korean, assume their message ...

Ernest Siva, 84, is one of the last remaining oral historians of the Indigenous Serrano language. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times) When Ernest Siva was a boy on the Morongo Reservation in ...

Like many Indigenous people of North America, Miali Coley-Sudlovenick fears that her native language is dying. European colonization left Inuit struggling to preserve their culture and tongue in an ...

The program, along with other Indigenous Language programs at the university, faces difficulties as classes have been cut ...

After more than three decades in session, the American Indian/Indigenous Languages Seminar at the Department of Linguistics has grown to become a forum for linguists to study Indigenous languages, as ...

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 ...

Los Angeles has recently welcomed a slate of elected officials following the widespread outrage from the leaked audio recording that has exposed deep-seated, racist behavior within L.A.’s local ...

Across the world, experts estimate that one language dies every two weeks, and with it, unique modes of communication, cultural knowledge, and religious practices. In the U.S.—as most tribal nations ...

Tribal leaders and language immersion educators will convene in Missoula on March 8 and 9 for a Class 7 professional development training and language revitalization workshop. The Class 7 Indigenous ...

Among other things, the survival of a language depends on the prosperity and political influence of the community which speaks it Some five to seven thousand languages are spoken in the world today ...