CLEARFIELD — The language of the Navajo rose and fell as Patricia Benally spoke to her class Wednesday evening with guttural stops, prolonged vowels and soft consonants. Benally recited the Pledge of ...

Just in time for Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Duolingo is launching two courses for endangered indigenous languages, both created by native speakers. Starting today, you can use the app to learn the ...

EAST GRAND FORKS — A small group of first-graders hovered around the table, watching intently as Dennis “Spiritdancer” Rogers dropped a grain of colored sand onto the image of an eagle in a shallow ...

FARMINGTON, N.M. — Isaac Merritt and Kaydence Yazzie are the CCSD students who have earned the Navajo Nation bilingual seal of proficiency. Wednesday, the district and the Intercultural and Community ...

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 ...

In the Navajo culture, teachers are revered as "wisdom keepers," entrusted with the young to help them grow and learn. This is how Tia Tsosie Begay approaches her work as a fourth-grade teacher at a ...

The Navajo Nation Museum will premier a Navajo-dubbed version of Clint Eastwood's 1964 classic, A Fistful of Dollars on Tuesday. Ravonelle Yazzie is not an actor. And prior to getting cast in the ...

A group of artists from the Four Corners area is seeking Navajo speakers with a knack for storytelling to submit shorts to the first annual Tacey Atsitty, a Navajo poet and director of the festival’s ...

As NASA's Perseverance rover starts to discover and identify interesting new features on the surface of Mars, the team back on Earth will need to start naming them — and they've chosen to honor the ...

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Chris Deschene says he has the resume to preside over the country’s largest American Indian reservation. He’s a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, served in the Marines, owns ...

THE TRIPLE DIGITS FOR COVID-19 CASES, THE NAVAJO NATION IS ON A DOWNWARD TREND. ACTION 7 NEWS REPORTER MARISSA ARMAS TELLS US WHAT OTHER CITIES COULD LEARN FROM THEM ABOUT GETTING THE PANDEMIC UNDER ...

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. — An iconic western starring Clint Eastwood has been dubbed in the Navajo language. The movie “A Fistful of Dollars” — or “Béeso Dah Yiníłjaa’” in Navajo — will be screened for free ...