Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Oceti Sakowin Treaty Councils issue this urgent call to all Lakota people, communities, and leadership: it is time to launch ...

Among the 600 languages spoken in the five boroughs is Lakota, a Native American language spoken primarily by members of the Lakota tribes in North and South Dakota. According to the Indiana-based ...

Lakota was never written down prior to missionaries and early tribal scholars introducing grammars and dictionaries. The goal of Lakota Institute, however, is not to teach a book language, but a ...

Children learning Lakota language at Wakanyeja Tokeyachi immersion school run by REDCO’s sister organization Sicangu Community Development Corporation for elementary students on the Rosebud ...

GRAND FORKS — Laurel Vermillion never learned her native language at a young age. She grew up on the South Dakota side of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, and her parents didn’t teach her ...

In the thick of the summer, 10 high school and college students sat in the empty library of Maȟpíya Lúta — Red Cloud — High School in Pine Ridge, South Dakota. There, they recited everyday phrases in ...