Sterling Martin found that when he returned home to Shiprock while studying biochemistry at the University of Iowa, he had difficulty communicating his work to his family in their native tongue.

Navajo is now the official language of the Navajo Nation, placing an obligation on the tribal government to preserve and strengthen the language. Legislation was approved by the Navajo Nation Council ...

Robert W. Young, 94, a linguist whose collaboration with a Navajo tribesman resulted in dictionaries of the native language, died Feb. 20 in Albuquerque. The cause of death was not reported. Young is ...

Clayton Long is reviving the Navajo language -- in part by translating the Pledge of Allegiance for kids in his Utah school district, a portion of which is a Navajo reservation. Justin Merriman Every ...

A revision and expansion of the authors' The Navaho language and A vocabulary of colloquial Navaho siris_sil_134164 ...

Contains: (1) Letter of transmittal from Thomas to Gibbs forwarding his Yuma vocabulary and Whipple's Navajo vocabulary, dated March 5, 1868, Louisville, Kentucky. (2) Yuma vocabulary obtained by ...

Aug. 14 is Navajo Code Talkers Day, a date President Ronald Reagan dedicated in 1982 to "all members of the Navaho Nation and to all Native Americans who gave their special talents and their lives so ...