The only language Curtis Lieb knew was Ponca until he was 6 years old and started attending Pawnee Indian School in Pawnee. Now, the first language he spoke is considered endangered, so he and a few ...

Now, the first language he spoke is considered endangered, so he and a few of his family members are trying to breathe new life into it. Lieb's grandniece, Sharvon Vick, started the class, Ponca ...

A group of tribal elders conversant in the Umónhon language helped newer learners at last week’s “boot camp.” About 70 people came to the institute, double the number that organizers expected. Said ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian presents “We Are a People: The Ponca Journey,” a free two-day festival featuring music, dance, play readings, a film screening and panel ...

Linguist Bryan Gordon teaches how to use the new textbook for members of the Omaha Tribe at the Omaha-Ponca Language Institute in Macy, Nebraska. A group of tribal elders conversant in the Umónhon ...

Ponca tribal member Steve Laravie (top right), who is working to revive the tribe's culture and language with Ponca children, teaches Native songs on the drum Wednesday, March 6, 2013, during a weekly ...

In June, Barbara Salvatore Klopping asked her husband if she could load up the New York couple's two daughters and two horses and move more than 1,100 miles west to live and study. OK, he said. Six ...

NELIGH, Neb. (AP) - Residents here still honor a promise they made 140 years ago. The evidence is on a grassy hill overlooking this Antelope County community. The Laurel Hill cemetery isn’t much ...

In many ways, the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska's rise from near extinction to restoration began with a question from Fred Leroy's daughter. "She asked why there was nothing in the history books about the ...

OMAHA -- The man who helped put the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska back together again died early Wednesday in Omaha. Fred LeRoy -- Marine, Vietnam vet, tribal leader, tribal learner -- was 63. "He was so ...

This is their grandfather's song, and these are his grandchildren, singing as a way to honor their ancestor. They sing Standing Bear's song so they will be remembered, because it's sometimes easy for ...