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News & Recent Events

Registration Is Open To All

Lakota Summer Institute is NOW open to all language learners eager to learn Lakota! This event will be held in a virtual format on Zoom.

Since 2007 LLC has been hosting the Lakota Summer Institute. These classes are designed to offer a deep dive into the Lakota Language. Language events offer beginner, pre-intermediate, and teacher tracks so learners can have the time and space to learn and use essential skills with other language learners at their level.

Teacher Track –
June 27th – July 1st

Choose the Teacher Track if you are a Lakota language teacher wanting to build upon their teaching and language skills. Dr. Kimberlee Campbell will be instructing this one-week continuing education session being held virtually.

Beginner & Pre-Intermediate
July 18th – 29th

Lakota language learners can enroll in Beginner and Pre-Intermediate classes. You can attend 1 week or 2 weeks of sessions from 9 am – 4:15 pm that will cover communicative and grammar topics. This is a great opportunity to connect with others learning Lakȟólʼiyapi.

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If you have questions about this summer’s events you can reply to this newsletter or email events@lakhota.org for assistance.

New Picture Books Coming Soon! 

Three children’s picture books will be available soon. These new, colorful books are intended for children ages 3-8 years old.

  • “How is the sky today?” – a picture book about weather patterns.
  • “What’s for lunch?” – a picture book featuring a cartoon bunny who counts to help readers learn numbers
  • “How are you?” – a picture book that helps explain feelings using emojis.

If you are a teacher, educator, homeschooler or administrator we will be offering copies at no cost once they become available for a limited time.

Lakȟótiya Wóglaka Po!

Listening to our Elders and hearing them share stories is an important part of learning Lakhota. Rick Two Dogs was generous enough to share a story about his Uncle Joseph Horn Chips in this new YouTube video.

We hope you will find encouragement as you listen to the story. Elders like Rick are sharing in this way to make the language and these stories more accessible to all. The translation is provided so you can use the dictionary to look up words you may not be familiar with. Check out the online dictionary here > New Lakota Dictionary Online 

Intern Opportunities

Last Chance To Apply
For Native American Internships!

Are you a Native Student Looking for a summer internship? Come spend a month in Bloomington, Indiana, and learn how the Language Conservancy supports Indigenous Language Communities. This internship allows you to see the operations, administrative, and material creation process up close and personal.

Benefits: This is a paid internship that provides housing, transportation, and a generous weekly stipend for your time. 

Qualifications: Applicants must be from a North American Tribe and be between the ages of 18 – 24.
Contact internships@languageconservancy.org with any questions

Around The Office

LLC Cultural Competency Training

As part of our commitment to working with Native communities, we recently participated in cultural competency training hosted by Pete Hill (Cayuga) from Native American Child Services (NACS).

The training session focused on understanding historical trauma. Sessions like this allow our staff to better support the Native communities and individuals that we work with.

LLC has and will continue to commit time for staff to staff receiving ongoing training from Native-led orgs.

New Lakota Dictionary 3.0 for Desktop – Available Soon!

If you’ve been a long-time subscriber you’ve seen this section in this newsletter for a long time. We are happy to share that our Linguistics team is in the final editing stages of the updated dictionary. Stay tuned to this section for updates in the coming months.

The New Lakota Dictionary for your desktop’s latest update will be available soon for Mac and PC with new entries and example sentences. This updated version builds on decades of linguistic work to create the most accurate and up-to-date dictionary possible, with 6,000 new entries and 13,000 new example sentences.

The New Lakota Dictionary was created in partnership with over 400 native speakers to ensure accuracy not only in spelling and definition but in context as well. This is an invaluable resource for Lakota learners everywhere and is easily accessible to anyone with a computer. When a user searches a word, they are presented with multiple definitions and spellings depending on the context in which the word is being used, as well as example sentences to demonstrate the word in a complete Lakota phrase. A total of 31,000-word entries and 53,000 example sentences makes the New Lakota Dictionary the most in-depth Lakota dictionary available, and an important tool in Lakota language learning and preservation.

Tókša akhé  – the LLC Team

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