Lakota language

Shirley Murphy joins Native American elders from across South Dakota who traveled to the Prairie Knights Casino on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation to record their memories and the Lakota language for Thunder Valley CDC. (Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight)

Lakota is critically endangered. Elder retreats preserve, build road maps to revive it.

BY: - July 9, 2023

FORT YATES, North Dakota — Dozens of Native American elders from South Dakota tribal nations gathered in the Prairie Knights Casino on the Standing Rock Reservation earlier this month. Sitting at tables armed with pens and composition notebooks, they wrote about memories from their childhoods and shared their stories orally with each other in Lakota […]