The Oceti Sakowin Treaty Councils issue this urgent call to all Lakota people, communities, and leadership: it is time to launch large-scale emergency operations to rescue and restore the Lakota ...

"Oyate Woyaka" tells the story of the Lakota language history, loss and revitalization. "Oyate Woyaka" tells the story of the Lakota language history, loss and revitalization. The film touches on the ...

BISMARCK, N.D. — 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 ...

High-profile members of the cast of 2012’s “The Avengers” reunited recently to record the movie’s dialogue in Lakota, the language spoken by the Lakota people of the Sioux tribes. The effort was ...

Many Lakota people agree: It's imperative to revitalize the Lakota language. But how exactly to do that is a matter of broader debate. Should... In Lakota Nation, people are asking: Who does a ...

Philomine Lakota, who teaches the most advanced high school language class, says the program has equipped her with the linguistic tools and support she needs to continue the work of keeping the ...

"We have a responsibility to keep this language alive," she said. Although Hall had learned Lakota as her first language, she eventually went to boarding school and learned English. Fluent in her ...

In a small room in the basement of New York University, Aru Apaza sits with a group of a dozen others and gushes about American Indian Community House – a nonprofit that has become a home away from ...

RAPID CITY, S.D. — A new theatrical adaptation of William Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night,” reimagined through a Lakota cultural lens and set in the 1800s, is now in development by Rapid City-based ...