A drum circle sang songs of victory. A smudging ceremony wiped away the tears. And Crow tribal elders spoke in Apsáalooke (Crow language) about the next generation that has yet to be born. The early ...

Crow is still spoken among adult members of the south-central Montana tribe. During public meetings, an opening prayer is said in Crow, and other speakers, in the course of a talk, will move easily ...

There’s a big difference between being able to speak the Crow language and being able to teach it. But, for a language used by a dwindling number of people in the roughly 13,000-member tribe, there ...

Keeping their language alive The Crow Language Club meets monthly at the downtown Perkins Restaurant. If you are a Crow woman and would like to join the group to brush up on your language, email ...

Michael Joseph, the consortium's public relations coordinator, said the funding will support interns, language digitization and an ongoing effort to build the most extensive Crow dictionary, which ...

BILLINGS -- Fourth-grader Nayola Lion Shows pokes at the surface of an iPad as the Crow language echoes around her.

“There’s no other tribe that has this level of fluency,” Pease said. “Among people my age, it’s like 85 percent fluency.” The problem for the Crow Tribe lies with its youngest members, Pease said.

MISSOULA, Mont. — A Crow language print dictionary will be released on June 3, after years of collective effort from the community, according to the Crow Language Consortium. This historic print ...

Crow is still spoken among adult members of the southcentral Montana tribe. During public meetings, an opening prayer is said in Crow, and other speakers, in the course of a talk, will move easily ...

During the 1800s and 1900s, Native American children were forced to attend boarding schools, where they were punished for speaking Indigenous languages. As a result, in the last 60 years, the Crow ...

Native American languages are struggling to stay alive. But with the help of summer language institutes, they are on their way back. Many Native American languages have only a few speakers left. But ...

Crow is still spoken among adult members of the south-central Montana tribe. During public meetings, an opening prayer is said in Crow, and other speakers, in the course of a talk, will move easily ...