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 ...

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 ...

Lakota, once suppressed by the boarding school system, is on the rise in western South Dakota. For the first time, the Lakota Language Consortium hosted a two-week Lakota Summer Institute on Pine ...

“I was completely frightened to speak Lakota when I came to Red Cloud my freshman year. But I feel so much more confident now,” explains Big Crow. “Now even when I’m in Rapid City, my brother and I ...

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 ...

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 ...