Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... People such as Gwen Holmes are basically doing triage work in a desperate attempt to keep the Lakota language and culture alive in the United States. “I ...

STANDING ROCK INDIAN RESERVATION, S.D. — Ray Taken Alive had been fighting for this moment for two years: At his urging, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Council was about to take the rare and severe ...

After teaching children life lessons for nearly five decades through their books and recent TV series, the bears are now helping revive the American Indian tribal language of Lakota. Guest host Jacki ...

Iron Hawk introduced the class to a written Lakota alphabet curriculum developed by Alex White Plume of Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. He also introduced the nasal phonetics developed by the late ...

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) - 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 ...

ANTHREF copy 39088015276504 gift of Candace S. Greene. Dictionary symbols and abbreviations -- Quick user's guide, key to English-Lakota entries -- Key to Lakota-English entries -- Guide to ...