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Colleen Connelly

Colleen Connolly is a Minneapolis-based bilingual journalist for Minnesota Reformer, writing about immigration, education, Latin America and other issues. Connolly has also worked as a digital news editor at the Chicago Tribune and NBC Chicago.

A screenshot of the new app that helps people learn the Dakota language.

New Dakota language app helps bridge gap between elders and youth

By: Colleen Connelly - March 7, 2023

Khloe Cavanaugh learned some Dakota words from her grandfather growing up on the Spirit Lake Reservation in North Dakota. He was one of the few fluent first language speakers on the reservation. “I have an Indian name and I didn’t know how to say it in Dakota, so he taught me how to say it […]

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