MCLAUGHLIN, S.D. – Eugene “Ray” Taken Alive has spent the better part of four years in an ongoing back-and-forth legal battle against the Lakota Language Consortium, a language conservation program ...

STANDING ROCK INDIAN RESERVATION, S.D. — Ray Taken Alive had been fighting for this moment for two years: At his urging, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Council was about to take the rare and severe ...

Among the 600 languages spoken in the five boroughs is Lakota, a Native American language spoken primarily by members of the Lakota tribes in North and South Dakota. According to the Indiana-based ...

Children learning Lakota language at Wakanyeja Tokeyachi immersion school run by REDCO’s sister organization Sicangu Community Development Corporation for elementary students on the Rosebud ...

The Lakota language may be dying, but it won't as long as He Dog Elementary and Todd County Middle School have a say. Both schools are making major changes to learning as part of a $590,000 Native ...

Learning another language can be beneficial. In Hot Springs, one option for students is learning the Lakota language and culture. Trestina Connelly is a junior at Hot Springs High School and is ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - A new website created with a primarily Native American audience in mind is posting news, features, sports and weather entirely in Lakota — the first of its kind to do so — in an ...

BISMARCK - Tom Red Bird is 61 years old, and he eats macaroni and cheese with Elmer's Glue on his fingers, just like a 3-year-old. Red Bird is one of the remaining people in the world who can speak ...

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, ...

STANDING ROCK SIOUX RESERVATION — Sunshine Carlow is racing to build a generation of fluent Lakota and Dakota language speakers before it’s too late. Carlow, 40, helped lead a three-week Dakota/Lakota ...

Looking to bring cultural tradition to a new generation through technology, a Native American nonprofit that works to preserve the language and culture of its people released a new digital edition of ...