By Amy "Frankie" Felegy for Arts Midwest. Broadcast version by Mike Moen for Greater Dakota News Service reporting for the ...

It’s a language that opens communication without saying a word, and dozens of Lakota high school students are now increasingly fluent thanks to the district’s new learning program. Students at both ...

PINE RIDGE, S.D. -- When Tristiana Brewer studies Lakota Language and Culture at Pine Ridge High School with her teacher, Will Peters, she scrutinizes the small details. Then, before long, larger ...

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 ...

Halley Maynard, left, Maynard's daughter Jesse, right, and Steven Lee set up one of six tipis on June 3 for temporary classrooms and shelters at a Lakota language immersion camp near Cherry Creek.

In the thick of the summer, 10 high school and college students sat in the empty library of Maȟpíya Lúta — Red Cloud — High School in Pine Ridge, South Dakota. There, they recited everyday phrases in ...

But when Taken Alive, 35, asked for copies, he was shocked to learn that the consortium, run by a white man, had copyrighted the language materials, which were based on generations of Lakota tradition ...

Lakota for the "Compassionate Bear Family," the animated series "Mathó Waúnsila Thiwáhe" is the first animated series ever translated into an American Indian language and began airing this week on ...

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 ...

An April 3 letter from the U.S. Department of Education threatening schools who use Diversity Equity and Inclusion in lessons has some families on edge in the district, but Indian Education Director ...