Wilhelm Meya and the Lakota Language Consortium pledged to preserve a Native American language. Their work set off a battle that led the Standing Rock Sioux to banish them.

STANDING ROCK SIOUX RESERVATION — Sunshine Carlow is racing to build a generation of fluent Lakota and Dakota language speakers before it’s too late.

The Lakota Language Consortium has a long, sordid past with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and particular one of its citizens ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The man who oversees a Lakota language program at Sioux Falls public schools is now offering Lakota classes to the public. Tim Easter will teach one-hour classes one ...

FARGO - The Berenstain Bears, a popular educational children's cartoon program on public television, soon will be speaking in the language of the Lakota Sioux.

Some linguists predict that up to 90 percent of the world's 7,000 languages will be extinct by the end of this century. Professor Richard Henne-Ochoa, education, is working to make sure Lakota is not ...

Red Bird is one of the remaining people in the world who can speak Lakota, an indigenous language spoken by Hunkpapa Sioux since time unknown. He spends his days in a large airy room with green ...

Thanks in part to those policies, Philomine's language now teeters on the edge of extinction. Lakota is one of three dialects spoken by the Sioux people.

The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe is now preparing to launch a lawsuit against the Lakota Language Consortium, which it banned from its reservation and lands in 2022.

The children speak in Lakota. Their teacher, Savannah Greseth, walks the aisles of seated second graders, counting to 15 with them. “Wa?zí, nú?pa, yámni.” Only when she prepares a short ...

A recovering alcoholic, Bernard helped people out of addictions by leading them to Tunkashila, which means God in the Sioux language. He led people such as Gary Christensen to themselves by bringing ...

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