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 ...

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 ...

Tammy DeCoteau devotes much of her time thinking about how she can coax children into doing something that came naturally to their great-grandparents: speak in their native Dakota language. In recent ...

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 ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Introduced in fall 2023, the University of Minnesota’s new Dakota language major is part of the movement throughout Dakota communities to increase the number of Dakota language speakers ...

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 ...

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 ...

The late Glenn Wasicuna taught Dakota language classes for about 25 years. The rural Good Thunder resident was one of two teachers in Minnesota who spoke Dakota as their first language.

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 ...

RED WING — One thing Barry Hand is trying to get across to his students is this: Language is power. For the first time in years, students at Red Wing High School can take a class in the Dakota ...