Topic: indigenous languages

Mike Carlson, 19, teaches pre-school age children Yurok words at the Klamath Family Head Start program. The Yurok tribal language revitalization program has developed curricula for all ages. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Indigenous language education in schools

Mneesha Gellman - The Conversation
FILE - In this Aug. 12, 2005, file photo, an ATV dreives past caribou antlers on one of the dirt roads in Barrow, Alaska. Residents in Barrow, the nation's northernmost community, have voted to change the name of their city back to its traditional Inupiaq name of Utqiagvik. (AP Photo/Al Grillo, File) (AP)

Alaska has a linguistic emergency

Rosalyn R. LaPier - The Conversation