WARNING: This story contains details some readers may find distressing. Tanzy Janvier's grandparents had their Dene language beaten out of them at residential schools. Now, Janvier is reconnecting ...

Students at St. Louis School on English River First Nation using the specialized Dene language keyboards. (Submitted by Michèle Mackasey - image credit) A man from a northern Saskatchewan First Nation ...

University of Saskatchewan linguistics professor Olga Lovick will be delving into Dene with speakers in Clearwater River Dene Nation and La Loche next month for a four-year project. That comes as the ...

The spark for the Dene Yati podcast came from Willis Janvier messing around on a Zoom call and a friend recording him. "I was doing this voice, you know, like a radio voice type, and it was a funny ...

University Professor Keren Rice is the Canada Research Chair in Linguistics and Aboriginal Studies, a renowned expert on the grammar of Dene and a leading defender of Indigenous languages. The 2015 ...

When La Loche’s Ducharme Elementary School returns this fall, some young students’ first classes won’t be in English. Those kindergarten and prekindergarten students will be learning Dene under the ...

Brandon Jumbo is bucking a trend. He is fluent in Dene Zahtie, a language in the Dene language family, and one of nine official Indigenous languages of the Northwest Territories. According to the most ...

For National Addictions Awareness Week in Saskatchewan, an Indigenous podcast called Pîkiskwêwin launched a series that explores Dene teachings about mental health. The Pîkiskwêwin director of ...

This polar projection map of Asia and North America shows the approximate terminal Pleistocene shoreline. The center of geographic distribution of Yeniseian and Na-Dene language is in Beringia. From ...

North and South America were first populated by three waves of migrants from Siberia rather than just a single migration, say researchers who have studied the whole genomes of Native Americans in ...