Lynette St. Clair is one of the nominees for USA TODAY’s Women of the Year program, a recognition of women who have made a significant impact in their communities and across the country. The program ...

FORT WASHAKIE - Wilfred Ferris is proud of his heritage as a member of the Eastern Shoshone Tribe. He was born in Lander and is old enough, he says, to remember a time when the language of his elders ...

She says: “We’re trying to save our culture without a language. But you can’t have a whole culture without language.” It’s not easy to translate a modern word like “computer” into Shoshone, a language ...

Every language that dies takes with it such fascinating stories. Galer notes that the Karuk language of Native Californians ...

Language is everything to Lynette St. Clair. "By knowing your language, I feel it makes you more whole," she said. St. Clair has taught the Shoshone language to everyone from grade-school students in ...