During the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Indigenous Nations across the country like mine began to feel it’s disproportionate impact on our communities. Then, we started losing the most precious ...

Being taught an Aboriginal language at school has generally been associated with positive school outcomes for Aboriginal children but not adults. This study attempted to understand this discordance by ...

This piece was written by Elaíze Farias and originally published at Amazônia Real's website, on April 19, 2023. It is republished here, with edits, under a partnership agreement with Global Voices.

Jennifer Green received funding from an ARC (Australian Research Council) Fellowship (DE160100873), and from the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language (CoEDL) (CE140100041). Felicity ...

There are roughly 7,000 languages spoken around the world. Indigenous groups speak more than 4,000 of them, despite making up less than 6 percent of the global population. These languages often hold ...

HARLINGEN, Texas (Border Report) — A new study found that hundreds of asylum-seekers placed in the Migrant Protection Protocols program spoke 40 different languages, including several rare and ...

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 ...

Tulika Bose: You’re listening to a celebration in the Levenofi village in the remote highlands of the island nation of Papua New Guinea. I was here with our Scientific American video crew last year to ...

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This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. HARLINGEN, Texas (Border Report) — A new ...

Colleagues routinely describe Michael Running Wolf as someone who walks seamlessly between two worlds. As an artificial intelligence (AI) researcher at the software-development company SynthBee in ...