Month: February 2014

Another great LSI is just around the corner… June 2-20, 2014 at Sitting Bull College For a map and directions to the event, click here.

2014 LSI Courses Offered:

• Intensive Lakota for Beginners 1-3
• Intensive Lakota for Upper-Beginners 1-3
• Teaching Lakota 1-5 Methods
• Lakota Drama/ Performance ( Another Iktomi Play!)
• Teaching Lakota Grammar 1-3
• Intensive Lakota for Pre-Intermediates I-III
• Intensive Lakota for Intermediates I-III • Reading II
• Traditional Lakota Flute• Northern Plains Sign Language
• Neologism Development 1-2

Click Here for More Information   Plus lots of great visitors and people to meet. Start your registration today and contact Sunshine Carlow

scarlow@standingrock.org 

2014 LSI paper Registration Form

Registration is now open online for the 2014 Lakota Summer Institute.  Sitting Bull College in Fort Yates, ND,

Standing Rock, is once again the host for this “boot camp” in Lakota language study.

As teachers and their students all advance, the course schedule evolves.  This year, Intensive Lakota classes are offered at the Pre-Intermediate and Intermediate levels, taking forward the materials in Intensive Lakota for Beginners I – III (LDL 121, 122 & 123) and Intensive Lakota for Upper Beginners I – III (LDL 121B, 122B &123B).   Intensive Lakota for Pre-Intermediates I – III is coded LDL 221, 222 & 223, and Intensive Lakota for Intermediates I – III is coded LDL 321, 322 & 323.

Intensive Lakota for Beginners I – III will be offered in the evenings as well, for non-teachers and families. Reading II (LDL 341) will be offered twice during Week 3, in the morning and in the afternoon. Teaching Lakota Grammar I – III (LDL 108, 208 & 308) combines Jan Ullrich’s previous courses in Morphology and Syntax, and adds new material that he has developed for the Lakota Grammar Handbook project.  Thus this course series will be much more user-friendly because the examples and activities are geared towards the interests of a student in Lakota, rather than a linguist.

Four courses will explore use of the language from other perspectives.  Ben Black Bear will lead a class in Neologism Development (LDL 350 & 450) during weeks 1 and 2, tracking ways Lakota has changed over time and how it can be consciously adapted to new situations like going to a hospital or playing basketball. Kevin Locke returns with Teaching Traditional Lakota Flute (LDL 352), expanding on the introductory class given last year, which had participants build and play their own Plains-style flute in the traditional tuning. Dr. Lanny Real Bird will return with the Northern Plains Sign Language (LDL 252) course he taught in 2013.

Lakota Drama/Performance I-III (LDL 440, 441 & 442) will be the rehearsal and production course for a new Iktomi play, Iktómi Lečhála Tȟawíčutȟuŋ (Iktomi’s New Wife).

Click Here to Register for this Event

https://www.laksummerinst.com

We look forward to seeing you in June!

You might have noticed that lately your clicks have been directed to a new address for the LLC web site.

Yep, we’re under construction.

Our new page will be completed and launched by March 2014.  This time around we’re going with WordPress.

See you there, soon!

In our last Newsletter we told you about renowned Lakota Flute player Kevin Locke’s desire to re-introduce the traditional indigenous flute tuning and melodies to schools, and the class he led with music educator Richard Dubé at the 2013 Lakota Summer Institute.   The lesson book they co-wrote for playing traditional Native flute nearly ready for publication and shipping in early Spring.  Pre-orders for Šiyótȟaŋka Yažópi!  Play Lakota Flute! – A Traditional Indigenous Flute Curriculum can be made at our online store.

The flutes with traditional tuning can be purchased as a finished item, or as a build-it-yourself kit, from Dubé’s company, Northern Spirit Flutes.

The Audio CD of songs to accompany the lesson book will be available in Summer 2014.