As Native language programs flourish in classrooms, Indian centers, tribal meeting rooms and online, President Donald Trump issued an executive order over the weekend declaring English would be the ...

Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren signed into law the designation of Navajo as the official language of the Navajo Nation ...

In a new study, Dartmouth researchers trained an AI language-identification model inspired by Google Translate to recognize Navajo with near-perfect accuracy. The study suggests that services such as ...

"I am saving my people's language from extinction." Elfreida Begay is a high school teacher who is teaching the ancient Navajo language to students at Durango High School in Colorado. In fact, she is ...

A New Mexico woman decided to put a local Burger King drive-thru worker to the test by ordering in her native Navajo language. What happened next left her pleasantly surprised. The Navajo language ...

The group of Navajo speakers gathered in Flagstaff, Arizona, were deep into translating the pages stacked in front of them when they began deliberating over how to best describe fentanyl. It wouldn't ...

Phoenix is outpacing the nation in bioscience and life science employment growth and funding from the National Institutes of Health to Arizona has grown 39% since 2019. A group of Navajo voters are ...

Navajo code talker John Kinsel, Sr. celebrated a major milestone earlier this year — his 106th birthday. Who were the World War II Navajo Code Talkers? During World War II, the U.S. Marines selected a ...

Although the Navajo language has been at a decline in fluency over the years, it is still widely spoken. The Census Bureau counted about 372,000 people who speak Native North American languages at ...