Tusweca Tiospaye has announced a special two-day breakout session during the 2014 Lakota-Dakota Language Summit in Rapid City, SD in October -- one that will earn its students college credit at Sitting Bull College. The Intensive Lakota/Dakota Language for Beginners breakout session is “designed for second-language learners who are at a beginner to elementary level,” according to Tusweca’s release. “It will give

We’re sharing this appeal from the Linguistic Society of America and CELP, the Committee on Endangered Languages and their Preservation. It’s a simple way to keep up on Congress’ consideration of two important pieces of legislation supporting preservation and education in endangered Native American languages.                CELP and LSA

There’s good news out of Congress for Native American languages, thanks to intensive effort by the Linguistic Society of America’s Committee on Endangered Languages and their Preservation (CELP)! Two pieces of legislation introduced in the U.S. Senate earlier this year, S. 1948, the “Native Language Immersion Student Achievement Act” and S. 2299, the “Native American Languages Reauthorization Act of 2014,” were both approved by

A Lakota-Dakota-speaking Berenstain Bears cartoon is the kid magnet at the new Innovation Gallery at the State Historical Society of North Dakota. The Gallery is one of four new galleries built in the Society’s newly expanded Heritage Center educational museum space. You can see that children hear the language on the telephone handsets while seeing