Ernest Siva is considered the last fluent speaker of Serrano, an Indigenous language. He is the author's mentor. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times) The root of my fascination with Indigenous ...

Ernest Siva, 84, is one of the last remaining oral historians of the Indigenous Serrano language. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times) When Ernest Siva was a boy on the Morongo Reservation in ...

The program, along with other Indigenous Language programs at the university, faces difficulties as classes have been cut ...

Like many Indigenous people of North America, Miali Coley-Sudlovenick fears that her native language is dying. European colonization left Inuit struggling to preserve their culture and tongue in an ...

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Kalyn Fay’s musical influences range from country to disco to pop. Family, culture and her relationship to the land in Oklahoma all figure into her music, as well as her Cherokee heritage. "I grew up ...

Los Angeles has recently welcomed a slate of elected officials following the widespread outrage from the leaked audio recording that has exposed deep-seated, racist behavior within L.A.’s local ...

Native languages across the country are on the edge of extinction. A report issued this year by the Bureau of Indian Affairs says the country may be down to fewer than two dozen by 2050. One tribe is ...

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 ...

Of the nearly 8,000 enrolled members in the Ho-Chunk Nation, there are currently less than 40 who can speak the Ho-Chunk language (also anglicized as Hoocąk). This is due to past removals and ...

How to travel and discover a language in these difficult times when the summer of 2020 is shaping up to be tough for the tourism world? You had planned a trip, a language trip perhaps? But no, ...

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