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  • Via ICTMN.com: Learn Your Language: Lakota Summer Institute Coming Up

    The 10thannual Lakota Summer Institute will be held June 6 to 24 at Sitting Bull College in Fort Yates, North Dakota. “For me, this was a spiritual journey which I will never forget,” Rick Williams, a 2015 LSI participant, told the Tribal College Journal. Hundreds of Lakota learners and educators have attended LSI in the…

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  • Alaska Native News: Native Americans Work to Save Language

    An excerpt: FORT YATES, NORTH DAKOTA—One evening a week, young and old gather in Michael Moore’s classroom in Fort Yates, North Dakota, to learn Lakota — the language of their Sioux tribal ancestors. For many of the students here at Sitting Bull College, it’s a tongue their great grandparents spoke fluently at home. But that…

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  • Lakota Greetings for Males: Part 1

    Here is a good website that provides examples of Lakota greetings for men.  Teaching our language is so important to keeping our cultures.  Like this website, we should use technology to our advantage when we can.

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