(Fairbanks)—Governor Bill Walker and Lieutenant Governor Byron Mallott congratulated Alaska Federation of Native’s 2016 Citizen of the Year Mike Toyukak Thursday morning during AFN’s 50th annual convention in Fairbanks. Toyukak and others sued the State of Alaska in 2013 for lack of language assistance for voters with limited proficiency in English in the Dillingham and Kusilvak […]
Sealaska Heritage Institute’s work on the Tlingit language was chosen by a federal humanities agency as one of 50 projects in the country that has enriched and shaped American lives during the last half century. The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) singled out SHI’s efforts to document and revitalize the Tlingit language as part […]
FORT YATES, NORTH DAKOTA—One evening a week, young and old gather in Michael Moore’s classroom in Fort Yates, North Dakota, to learn Lakota — the language of their Sioux tribal ancestors. For many of the students here at Sitting Bull College, it’s a tongue their great grandparents spoke fluently at home. But that changed in […]
A Navajo court has disqualified a tribal presidential candidate running for the top elected post on the largest U.S. Indian reservation because he has refused to demonstrate his fluency in the Navajo language. Chris Deschene, a U.S. Naval Academy graduate and a lawyer, refused to answer questions in the Navajo language Thursday at a hearing […]