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Coca-Cola's controversial Super Bowl ad made good use of a Native language: Coca-Cola’s ‘America the Beautiful’ Super Bowl Ad Causes ...

Navajo dubbed 'Star Wars' a crowd pleaser at premier By Shondiin Silversmith The original Star Wars: Episode IV--A New Hope premi...

A coach as Vader? Director unveils cast of Navajo 'Star Wars' By Shondiin Silversmith The Force proved to be strong with this gr...

Star Wars Saga to be translated into Diné language By Bill Donovan Coming as a surprise to everyone, especially members of the Navajo Trib...

There really are 50 Eskimo words for ‘snow’ By David Robson Anthropologist Franz Boas didn’t mean to spark a century-long argument. Travel...

Boney’s art combines cultures By Renee Fite The Japanese have animé, and the Cherokees have Boney. Artist and language preservationist Roy B...

More on the story of the girl punished for speaking Menominee : Sacred Heart, diocese send apologies School's action satisfies Washinawa...

New Tlingit encyclopedia baffling to scholars, speakers By Robert Woolsey A new encyclopedia of the Tlingit language has teachers in Sitka s...

Speaking of "Eskimo" stereotypes, I came across this soon after my posting on Suzuki's Dog-Sled Commercial : 31! And here th...

Using Menominee words at school gets girl benched Diocese looking into incident By Tiffany Wilbert Parents of a child at Sacred Heart Cathol...

Besides using their language on iPhones and iPads , the Cherokee Nation is using it to create Google Maps in Cherokee . Read about it in my...

Apple co-founder Steve Jobs leaves legacy in Cherokee language By Christina Good Voice The Cherokee Nation lowered its flags to half mast Oc...

A webcomic explains "How the Cherokee Syllabary Went from Parchment to iPad" in my Pictographs blog . Comment:  For more on the s...

Read about Frozen Whitefish, a Yup'ik language rock band , in my Pictographs blog . For more on the subject, see Natives in Flying Wild ...

Head shop name offends some First Nations A head shop in Winnipeg's West End is offending some people with its aboriginal name, Miigwetc...

Rise of Indigenous Actress Marks Change In Peru By Annie Murphy In 2009, when the Peruvian film The Milk of Sorrow won top honors at the Be...

Recent news reports about a Brazilian tribe have made the claim below. Blogger Stan Carey nicely deconstructs this claim: Amondawa has no w...

Teenage Tulalip Director Wins Best Emerging Filmmaker award By Richard Walke r “History is Unwritten,” a short film by Tulalip filmmaker Aar...

Here's an article and video about Wes Studi as a language activist --in my Pictographs blog, of course. For more on Wes Studi , see Crim...

Reincarnation of Stories:  New play, to be performed in Tlingit, opens tonight By Amy Condra Hope’s previous plays include “Raven Odyssey,” ...