New Yorkers rescue all manner of things – pets, people and lost things. This weekend, they have an opportunity to do something exceedingly rare: Help rescue a language. The language is Lakota, spoken by the Native American...

In 1889, an artist and activist living in New York journeyed to what is now the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, stretching across the Dakotas, where she befriended Sitting Bull and...

Those who work to revitalize Native American languages often find it challenging to reach the hearts of young people. But for one Lakota father and daughter, language has...

Kevin Locke tells StoryCorps Facilitator, Madison Mullen, about a promise and gift made by his friend and benefactor, Arlo Good Bear, shortly before his death. He describes...

In Woman Walks Ahead, a New York City activist and artist named Catherine Weldon (played by Jessica Chastain) travels across the United States to paint the great Native American...

The Language Conservancy (TLC) works to revive endangered languages. Alex Fire Thunder is an instructor for the Lakota Summer Institute at United Tribes Technical College in...

Only about 1,500 people nationwide speak Lakota. This is down 5,000 from ten years ago and 10,000 from 20 years ago. But one Lakota Language Consortium instructor is...

In a small room in the basement of New York University, Aru Apaza sits with a group of a dozen others and gushes...

Before colonization, the indigenous peoples of North America spoke nearly 500 different languages. Today, there are only 20 languages with enough speakers for a...

A national organization is working to save the Lakota language. This Saturday more than 50 people were at South East Technical institute in Sioux Falls to participate in the...