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Red Dress Day tribute and Pomo language course mark Indigenous progress

Indigenous advocacy and cultural revitalization converged this week, with a National Red Dress Day gathering honoring missing and murdered Indigenous women and the launch of Mendocino College’s first ...
The Daily Free Press

Decolonizing higher ed: BU’s Center for Latin American Studies hosts Indigenous Cultures and Languages Week

The history of indigenous cultures extends back thousands of years, but Célia Bianconi and María Datel feel it is not always addressed in education. “I grew up in Brazil, and in school in Brazil we ...
Alaska Public Media

Indigenous language educators work to establish Master's teaching program at University of Alaska Southeast

Language educators in Juneau are working to create a Master’s in teaching program for Indigenous languages at the University of Alaska Southeast. It would be the first of its kind in Alaska. Lingít ...
Noozhawk

Talk Addresses Indigenous Language Speakers and Healthcare Access

How does language shape access to healthcare, and what happens when patients and providers don’t speak the same language? The Goleta Valley Library ...
The Santa Fe New Mexican

Indigenous-language immersion schools aim to reverse cultural loss

JEMEZ PUEBLO — The words escape slowly from Eleanor Tafoya when she speaks of the decline of the Jemez language among the Pueblo’s youth. “If we don’t do anything, we’re going to lose our traditions ...