Nov. 8—CLOQUET — For Michelle Goose, an Anishinaabe language instructor at Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College, land and the languages that developed on it are intertwined. You can't fully ...

Eli Langley woke up one morning in a state of excitement after he had the most mystic of dreams at his childhood house in Elton, a rural plot of land west of Lafayette. In the dream, he was telling ...

The Ojibwe word for snow was a popular one as several Anishinaabe toddlers and their mothers and teachers trudged through the deep snow, the kids either delighting in last week's winter storm, or ...

In British Columbia, First Nations youth who speak their ancestral language are less likely to die by suicide. In Australia's Northern Territory, community-led language initiatives are linked to ...

As waves crash along the shores of Puget Sound, the descendants of the region’s earliest residents hear the words created by their ancestors. “They heard what the waves said x̌ʷəlč,” Zalmai Zahir said ...

WHEN it comes to communicating and connecting with others, language is the most important tool we have. But it isn’t always a unifying force. A survey of people in 14 high-income countries, for ...

MOTHER. There can scarcely be a more emotive word in the English language. We can imagine children howling it as they wake from nightmares, and centenarians whispering it on their death beds. A 2004 ...

YORK COUNTY — A new album is showcasing the ancestral language of one of South Carolina’s original inhabitants and helping to keep their spoken-word alive for generations to come. "Wį́tii' (Roots): ...