The Inuit and their fellow Canadians are mourning a champion of land-claim, linguistic and cultural rights in Jose Kusugak, who died of cancer on Jan. 18 at age 60...
Emmy Award winner Anne Makepeace will participate in Santa Barbara International Film Festival with her latest documentary, We Still Live Here (Âs Nutayuneân), Santa Barbara Indepe...
Alaska’s North Slope Borough and Rosetta Stone, a Virginia-based company that produces multimedia language courses, are planning to launch a new program this spring that is designe...
A series of wooden blocks bearing Inuktitut symbols, first invented by an Inuit family for their kids, is now being produced by the hundreds, the Nunatsiaq News reports ...
When European colonists “discovered” America, they found that Natives used a sign language to communicate between tribes that spoke different languages...
Eyak became the first of Alaska's endangered languages to be declared "extinct" when its last Native speaker, Chief Marie Smith Jones, died in January 2008, The Bristol Bay Times r...
National Geographic put together this pretty spectacular map , showcasing how just about every place name in our country comes courtesy of Native Americans.