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 ...

Dr. Emerson Bull Chief is used to questions about spelling. Sometimes the questions will come when he’s sitting in his office at Little Big Horn College, phone ringing with Crow elders and curious ...

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 ...

Goodbye has a finality to it, so Crow people avoid using it. Yet, without opportunities to practice the Crow language and encouragement from elders, there is fear that some are saying goodbye to their ...

CROW RESERVATION — On a weekday morning, teacher Janice Wilson leads a class of Wyola second-graders in a Crow song, their hands and their mouths in motion at the same time. Wyola, a small town not ...

Little Big Horn College, a tribal college on the Crow Reservation, in partnership with the Crow Language Consortium, will host the 10th annual Crow Summer Institute from June 6-24. The three-week ...

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 ...

When Raphaelle Real Bird started working in schools on the Crow Reservation, she said all the children spoke Crow, and there wasn't a need for Crow language classes. Now, 25 years later, she's ...

BUFFALO — For Jacob Brien, a love of language runs in the family. Growing up on the Crow Reservation in southeastern Montana, Brien learned to speak the Crow language from his grandmother, who was the ...

Crow Agency Elementary has a preschool class that heavily incorporates Crow language, though it's not a true immersion program. It can give kids a jump start on Crow, just like other subjects, whether ...

The language learning level in Real Bird’s classroom mirrors kindergarten content. Students sing songs for numbers, months and days of the week in both English and Crow, swaying just-counted fingers.

During lunch at Crow Agency Elementary School on a recent Thursday, students hunch over the table, eating oranges. They know the Crow word for yellow — shíile — and for red — hísshe. But the ...