Marilyn Allen, who is part Dakota and Lakota, looks through a Dakota-English dictionary during Dakota language class at Minnesota State University. Allen said she is taking the class because she wants ...

FORT TOTTEN, N.D.-Inside a classroom on the Spirit Lake Nation reservation, a group of Dakota students are dedicating the next two years of their lives to preserving their language and strengthening ...

At just 19 years old, Akiša Peters of the Sisseton Wahpeton Sioux Tribe is on the faculty at the Sisseton Wahpeton Tribal College. He specializes in a language that is thousands of years old, that not ...

MANKATO — Jan Red Owl Bruce stood under a Land of Memories canopy listening to an emcee speaking in Dakota to greet grand entry participants at the Mahkato Wacipi. “I understand it, but I don’t speak ...

Rayanna Lennes, reporter Catharine Richert, class teacher Arthur Lockwood, Kim Campbell, Alyssa Childs, Danielle Campbell and other class members take part in an online Dakota language class put on by ...

FORT TOTTEN, N.D.--Inside a classroom on the Spirit Lake Nation reservation, a group of Dakota students are dedicating the next two years of their lives to preserving their language and strengthening ...

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 ...

MORTON — Decorating bright orange T-shirts was the order of the day for a dozen Native American girls one Tuesday in September. Some of the girls from the Lower Sioux Community at Morton ironed ...