Many Minnesota schools rely on teacher-created Somali language classes. A new curriculum, created by Saida Hassan, aims to ease that burden and make programs easier to sustain.

Ehtalow Zar is one of the first teachers in the state licensed to teach Karen. In her Karen advisory class at St. Paul's Johnson Senior High School on Dec. 9, she taught students how to cook Karen ...

The effort to preserve the Dakota language and lifeways received a major boost this week as Dakota Wicohan was named the 2025 Greater Minnesota Bush Prize: Minnesota Recipient. The prestigious award ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Introduced in fall 2023, the University of Minnesota’s new Dakota language major is part of the movement throughout Dakota communities to increase the number of Dakota language speakers ...

A recently-launched exchange program aims to connect the Morris campus to less commonly taught languages that are available on the Twin Cities campus. The University of Minnesota Language Center’s ...