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 ...

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 ...

Barry Hand, Dakota language and culture teacher, quizzes members Prairie Island’s Dakota Bowl team in the community center at Prairie Island Indian Community Thursday.

ROCHESTER - Coen Wagner was a digging machine outside Dakota Middle School last Friday. And it was welcomed. The 8-year-old helped plant in the school’s medicine garden last fall — crops that included ...

A new University of Minnesota Living Learning Community (LLC) called the Dakota Language House will launch next fall to advance and support students’ learning of the Dakota language. Radius Apartments ...

When Joe Bendickson was growing up, first on the Lake Traverse Reservation near the Minnesota-South Dakota border and then in St. Paul, he did not speak Dakota, his ancestral tongue. Few did.

The Dakota language is at a crisis point right now; one CHAT member estimates there are only five fluent Dakota speakers left in the state of MN. The vision of the CHAT was that Dakota children learn ...