"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 ...

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 ...

Navajo teacher works to preserve indigenous language, emphasizing oral traditions and cultural ties. Elfreida Begay, a Navajo language teacher at Durango High School, is preserving Diné Bizaad by ...

In August 1912, Frances “Franc” Johnson descended from the train she had boarded in Wisconsin onto Gallup, New Mexico’s steamy desert asphalt. She was on her way to the Fort Defiance Indian School, a ...