Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. $20 million Durbin Feeling Language Center in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. (Photo/Courtesy of the Cherokee Nation) Guest Opinion. The ...

Leaders of the tribe held a ceremony on Jan. 24 to celebrate the reauthorization of the Durbin Feeling Language Preservation Act at the Durbin Feeling Language Center in Tahlequah. The Language Center ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. addressed the largest gathering of first-language and fluent Cherokee speakers in ...

The Cherokee Nation is expanding a program that focuses on preserving the tribe’s native language. In the past, only about four people have graduated a year from the program, but now they are ...

SAVING TSALAGI: Songwriter Kalyn Fay (Cherokee Nation, Muscogee Creek), who performs on the album Anvdvnelisgi (ᎠᏅᏛᏁᎵᏍᎩ), will perform at The Way We Speak with the World on Aug. 5. Photo courtesy of ...

Corrected: An earlier version of this story misstated the number of fluent Ojibwe speakers. According to Leslie Harper, the director of an Ojibwe immersion school in Leech Lake, Minn., about 1,000 of ...

The Ojibwe, or Anishinaabe, people have faced enemies familiar to Indigenous people worldwide: Colonialism and imperialism. In North America, these forces arrived in the form of westward European ...