X’unei Lance Twitchell teaches an advanced Tlingít course at University of Alaska Southeast on April 29, 2024. (Photo by Claire Stremple/Alaska Beacon) Before Monday evening’s advanced Tlingít ...
Twenty-three Alaska Native languages have been recognized alongside English as official Alaska state languages for a decade, but until this month there was no measure by which its schools could gauge ...
As leaders at the Department of the Interior and descendants of federal Indian boarding school survivors, we entered our roles in the Biden-Harris administration with a determined commitment to ...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - A new study from the Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development reports youth are one of the main age groups using Alaska Native languages. In the department’s ...
Lawmakers added four Alaska Native languages to the state’s official language tally and renamed the council that advocates for their survival and revitalization on Friday. Members of the Senate ...
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 ...
Before Monday evening’s advanced Tlingít language class, Raven Svenson and her classmate discussed how to conjugate the verb “boil” in the context of cooking. The University of Alaska Southeast class ...