10-Year National Plan on Native Language Revitalization released

Jan. 9, 2025
This report, prepared by the White House Council on Native American Affairs, calls for historic action to address the loss of Native languages across the lower 48 states, Alaska, and Hawai'i.
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Last month, the White House Council on Native American Affairs published a 10-Year National Plan on Native Language Revitalization. The Plan calls for historic action to address the United States government’s role in the loss of Native languages across the lower 48 states, Alaska, and Hawaiʻi. The Plan directly confronts the systematic and deliberate campaign by the United States to forcibly assimilate Native peoples and eradicate Native languages and cultures — a campaign extensively documented in the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative Investigative Reports, enshrined in legislation such as the Civilization Fund Act of 1819, and formally acknowledged by President Biden in his October 2024 apology to Native communities. The Plan makes clear that Congressional action is now required to preserve Native languages.

Click here to access the full 47-page Plan.