When it was made: These masks date to at least the 16th century; the one photographed above dates to 1885. Yup'ik masks vary dramatically in size and shape, anthropologist Dorothy Jean Ray wrote ...

About 68 million Americans speak a language other than English at home. The vast majority, 241 million, speak English and no ...

One of the world’s oldest continuous communities is ‘breathing its last breath’ as some of its few remaining men die fighting ...

President Trump is expected to sign an executive order designating English as the official language of the U.S. Activists and ...

President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order making English the official language of the United States, two White ...

With its multiracial demographic and a history of 250 years of immigrants from across the world, the U.S. has never had an ...

The order, which was signed Saturday, will allow government agencies and organizations that receive federal funding to choose ...

For centuries, Native communities have focused on the collective rather than the individual. Here’s what we can learn from ...

People in the U.S. also speak Native North American languages such as Navajo, Yupik, Dakota, Apache, Keres and Cherokee. Anabel Mendoza, the communications director for United We Dream ...

For thousands of years, Inuit and Yupik people wore goggles made of bone, driftwood, and walrus ivory with tiny eye slits to prevent snow blindness. Inuit snow goggles. Credit: Julian Idrobo ...