A drum circle sang songs of victory. A smudging ceremony wiped away the tears. And Crow tribal elders spoke in Apsáalooke (Crow language) about the next generation that has yet to be born. The early ...

Crow is still spoken among adult members of the south-central Montana tribe. During public meetings, an opening prayer is said in Crow, and other speakers, in the course of a talk, will move easily ...

Crow is still spoken among adult members of the southcentral Montana tribe. During public meetings, an opening prayer is said in Crow, and other speakers, in the course of a talk, will move easily ...

Goodbye has a finality to it, so Crow people avoid using it. Yet, without opportunities to practice the Crow language and encouragement from elders, there is fear that some are saying goodbye to their ...

There is no word for “goodbye” in the Crow language. Rather, in Apsalooke, it’s “shia-nuk" (see you later). Goodbye has a finality to it, so Crow people avoid using it. Yet, without opportunities to ...

Michael Joseph, the consortium's public relations coordinator, said the funding will support interns, language digitization and an ongoing effort to build the most extensive Crow dictionary, which ...

The Crow Language Consortium is working to change that. They’ve updated curricula that haven’t been touched since the 60s and 70s, and made those materials modern and accessible to all. That includes ...

“There’s no other tribe that has this level of fluency,” Pease said. “Among people my age, it’s like 85 percent fluency.” The problem for the Crow Tribe lies with its youngest members, Pease said.

There’s a big difference between being able to speak the Crow language and being able to teach it. But, for a language used by a dwindling number of people in the roughly 13,000-member tribe, there ...

Crow is still spoken among adult members of the south-central Montana tribe. During public meetings, an opening prayer is said in Crow, and other speakers, in the course of a talk, will move easily ...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - During lunch at Crow Agency Elementary School, students hunch over the table, eating oranges. They know the Crow word for yellow - shíile - and for red - hísshe. But the ...

Native American languages are struggling to stay alive. But with the help of summer language institutes, they are on their way back. Many Native American languages have only a few speakers left. But ...