Week Two! Section Two! Here we go again ... Coming up this week, Teaching Lakota/Dakota II, more Language Intensives, and the return of Northern Plains Sign Language, with Dr. Lanny Real Bird of the Crow Nation. Dr. Real Bird brings back instruction in nearly 200 hand signs that were the common language between many, many tribes

#LSI2014 #SittingBullCollege #StandingRockSiouxTribe #EndangeredLanguages #LakotaLanguage Ben Black Bear Jr. The energy of the young people at LSI keeps the elders on their toes! Board Work It’s clear the long, hard work of the elders has paved the way for this wave of younger students ... A good connection ...

The Lakota Summer Institute and Lakota Language Consortium are proud to announce distinguished theater professional Steve Elm will direct a new play this summer as the culmination of the annual Lakota Summer Institute – a play that will be performed entirely in the Lakota language. “Language, to me, is the key to theater,” says Steve

  During the three-week Lakota Summer Institute, June 2-20, LLC will send out daily briefs on the activities, people, and surprises of our annual teacher training / community get-together. Emphasize “brief” – we’ll keep it cool, with pictures and captions and short updates. It’s part of LLC’s new social media experiment – we’ve gathered tools

Today marks the 10th anniversary of LLC’s founding - and the beginning of a historic change for the better in the story of the Lakota language.  In May 2004, LLC launched with a small Board, affiliation with just one tribe and 15 Lakota and non-tribal schools ready to participate in a comprehensive, unified language revitalization

The Dakota Language Society – better known as Dakhóta Iápi Okhódakičhiye (or DIO) – has let us know that their first Textbook, first Audio CD and first set of Posters are doing “tons” of pre-orders at their new web site store! The DIO’s web site has information on the status of the Dakota language, including history of the written

Two new Native American language institutes will get off the ground in June 2014, running concurrently with the Lakota Summer Institute at Sitting Bull College.  Like LSI, both are focused on teacher training for second-language education with new textbooks for their respective languages, and on advanced language study for teachers and non-teachers alike. The Crow

Great news -- hotel room rates have been lowered at the Prairie Knights Casino Hotel for attendees of the Lakota Summer Institute! The previous $70/night rate has dropped to $50/night. Plus, Sitting Bull College has opened up its dormitories for $10/night during LSI, Sunday June 1 to Saturday, Jun 21. So you can still register here to

  The 2014 Lakota Summer Institute is just 4 weeks away!  Have you registered yet? This three-week immersion in Lakota culture and thought is widely known as a rigorous “boot camp” experience in language study – but it has grown to embrace a wide range of learning experiences that go beyond the classroom, and connect

We're shipping! The most advanced Lakota language textbook ever published is moving out of LLC offices now.   Lakȟótiya Wóglaka Po! Speak Lakota! Level 5 is the turning point for Lakota language education, something LLC's founding Board and leaders have envisioned since 2004 -- when mastered, these lessons establish the student as a proficient speaker, able