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 ...

President Buu Nygren signed legislation on Christmas Eve officially recognizing Diné Bizaad, the Navajo language, as the nation's official language. "One of my priorities coming in as President ...

The latest American Community Survey shows the majority of Arizona’s Native Americans do not speak the Navajo language at home, they only speak English. Families in more than half of Native American ...

Diné Bizaad is now the official language of the Navajo Nation. President Buu Nygren signed the legislation on Christmas Eve, which ensures Navajo is used, taught and supported with the necessary ...

"I don’t speak Navajo to my girls as much as I’d like,” Rutledge laments. “It’s a hard language to learn—you need to be surrounded by it, but the Army keeps us away, so we don’t get ...

One of Utah’s indigenous languages — Navajo — has faced a precipitous decline in recent decades. In 1980, 93% of Navajos spoke their native language. Thirty years later, that number had ...

Gen. Clayton B. Vogel that the Navajo language — due to it being largely unwritten — would be indecipherable to the Axis powers. Additionally, Johnston argued that the Navajo nation was large ...

The US Marines thought they had the answer in a Native American language. They turned to the Navajo tribe for recruits. Their mission was to devise a code rooted in the Navajo language that would ...

Lands and Language The Navajo Nation is the largest federally recognized tribe in the U.S., with approximately 225,000 members and a land mass of 25,000 square miles (16.2 million acres).

President Buu Nygren signed legislation on Christmas Eve officially recognizing Diné Bizaad, the Navajo language, as the nation's official language. "One of my priorities coming in as President has ...

President Buu Nygren signed legislation on Christmas Eve officially recognizing Diné Bizaad, the Navajo language, as the nation’s official language. “One of my priorities coming in as ...