ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – With students in Albuquerque Public Schools representing more than 121 Native American tribes and 100 different dialects, the district has started to teach native languages ...

PHOENIX — The boxes were tucked away when the government found Curtis Cook on the Internet. They had been in storage for about 20 years — not quite forgotten but now collecting dust. The Library of ...

ZUNI, NM — The Zuni Youth Enrichment Project announced today that preparations are under way for the 7th Annual Delapna:we Project. Made possible with support from the New Mexico Humanities Council, U ...

With other tribal leaders, Vicenti worries that Zuni is a vanishing language, like more than 80 percent of the remaining 175 Native American languages. Some scholars estimate that unless something is ...

Kaylene Quam (Zuni), a senior at the Santa Fe Indian School, still remembers the first time she heard the Zuni language being spoken by her older brother, even though she was a baby at the time.

The University of New Mexico is leading the effort to preserve the language of the state’s biggest pueblo. One student, along with UNM Libraries, has digitized Zuni language materials to reach a ...

ALBUQUERQUE – The University of New Mexico Libraries is working to preserve the Zuni language as part of a new digital initiative. The school recently announced it has digitized books and posters ...

It was a whispered question, between two young girls—one Zuni, one white—as they watched Zuni night dances in 1979. The Zuni tribe suffers from many of the same problems plaguing much of Indian ...