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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Native American languages are part of the daily lexicon for South Dakotans, but few know what those words mean and take their origin for granted. Even after being marginalized and repressed for ...

GRAND FORKS — Laurel Vermillion never learned her native language at a young age. She grew up on the South Dakota side of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, and her parents didn’t teach her ...

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 ...

Albert White Hat Sr. knows that at a certain age, young people like to carve their initials in things. But, he said, "my mother said, when you leave your name in public places, it becomes 'hunwin,'" ...

Philomine Lakota still remembers the feeling of her jaw being squeezed open as a 6-year-old. She remembers how the matron would jam the lye soap into her mouth, how she would gag, how the suds would ...

(AP) The endangered Lakota language has lost one of its greatest supporters. Albert White Hat, who was instrumental in teaching and preserving the American Indian language and translated the Hollywood ...

Some linguists predict that up to 90 percent of the world's 7,000 languages will be extinct by the end of this century. Professor Richard Henne-Ochoa, education, is working to make sure Lakota is not ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The man who oversees a Lakota language program at Sioux Falls public schools is now offering Lakota classes to the public. Tim Easter will teach one-hour classes one Sunday a ...