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Lakota Language Weekend – Rapid City

LLC is thrilled to announce an in-person Lakota Language Weekend in Rapid City during LNI! Join us on December 18th & 19th in Rapid City, SD for a Lakota Language Weekend. We are offering beginner and intermediate tracks. 

Lakota Language Weekends are a truly unique opportunity to meet other learners and explore conversational topics. For those that have attended these events in the past, this is a great way to build connections with other Lakȟótiyapi learners. If you are a beginner this is a supportive welcoming space to get started, the community is full of encouraging teachers and learners.

We will be at the 45th Annual Lakota Nation Invitational (LNI) on December 15 – 17th. LLC will be in booths 21 & 22 on the North Concourse at the Monument Arena in Rapid City, SD. For more information on LNI Click Here.

Come by our booth to pick up holiday gifts for the family, language materials for yourself, and get an overview of our digital media for learning on your own. Our team members will be there to help walk you through how to access the digital learning media and answer any questions you may have as well. We hope to see you there!

Listen to Native Voices On Our YouTube Channel

Tipiziwin Tolman and Shania Black Bear-Searby sat down to discuss the Tusweca Language Summit hosted in October of this year. Tipiziwin tells us about her presentations at the summit titled, “Anything is better than nothing- Language Learning by Any and Every Means” and “Waníyetu Wówapi – Using Winter Counts to Learn Language and History”.

Tipiziwin Tolman is Wičhíyena Dakota and Húŋkpapȟa Lakȟóta from the Standing Rock Sioux Indian Reservation in North Dakota. She is a representative of the Skunk, Pretends Eagle, and Yellow Lodge extended families of the Standing Rock people and the Young extended family from the Spirit Lake Dakota people. Tipiziwin is dedicated to bringing tribal language and culture to the forefront of conversations regarding public health disparities and social health determinants for indigenous communities and families. Within her scope as an Indigenous educator, Tribal Language Revitalization & Lakota Language Advocate and former immersion instructor, she bears witness to the reality that Tribal Language & Education rooted in Indigenous Pedagogy, are the key and leading social determinants of health for tribal members and tribal communities across the United States.

Tipiziwin is the co-owner of “Haípažaža Pȟežúta”(Medicine Soaps in the Lakota language) an online soap and body product store that promotes family, sustainability, and respectful indigenous reciprocity relationships with medicine plant relatives.

Click Here To Watch The Full Interview

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New Picture Book Made By Lakota Students

Last month we announced a new picture book created by the Dupree High School Lakota Language Class of 2020 – 2021. Over 400 giveaway books have been sent out to Native educators from California, Colorado and throughout the Dakotas!

This book is a Cheyenne River Community project written by the students in the Lakota Language Class at Dupree High School. Illustrations by Tammy Granados.

If you want to build your vocabulary while learning Lakota, it is essential to learn conjugation. This is also one of the most challenging concepts to master, but we’ve got a guide to help! This Conjugation tool allows you to enter a verb and see all the options to explain your thoughts.

New Lakota Dictionary 3.0 for Desktop – Available Soon!