Local Workshop Teaching About An Endangered Language – KDLT
A language workshop is being put on this weekend to try and teach others about their endangered language. "I'd be lying if I said there wasn't a fear in me of our language...
A language workshop is being put on this weekend to try and teach others about their endangered language. "I'd be lying if I said there wasn't a fear in me of our language...
Only 2,000 people speak Lakota anymore, according to one report from the Lakota Language Consortium. That's down from 6,000 Lakota speakers a decade ago. An effort is underway to save the language, though.
There was a wide variety of ages and ethnicities present at the weekend event. It was two days of learning for some of the new people and review for those who wanted to polish...
Lakota language speakers and enthusiasts gathered Saturday in Rapid City to advance their understanding and fluency in the language.
If anyone can save a dying language, it’s Mama Bear, simply because we’re pretty sure she can do anything. The Associated Press reports that public...
Albert White Hat spoke Lakota for the first 16 years of his life, but that ended the day he walked into the Jesuit-run boarding school in St. Francis on the Rosebud Indian Reservation.