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 ...

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 ...

FORT TOTTEN, N.D.-Inside a classroom on the Spirit Lake Nation reservation, a group of Dakota students are dedicating the next two years of their lives to preserving their language and strengthening ...

Vanessa Goodthunder is the director of C̣aƞṡayapi Waḳaƞyeża Owayawa Ṭi (Lower Sioux Children Are Sacred School), a Dakota-Immersion Early Head Start and Preschool. A member of the Lower Sioux Indian ...

FORT TOTTEN, N.D.--Inside a classroom on the Spirit Lake Nation reservation, a group of Dakota students are dedicating the next two years of their lives to preserving their language and strengthening ...

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 ...

MANKATO — Jan Red Owl Bruce stood under a Land of Memories canopy listening to an emcee speaking in Dakota to greet grand entry participants at the Mahkato Wacipi. “I understand it, but I don’t speak ...

MORTON, Minn. - Last fall, the Lower Sioux Indian Community lost Trulo Columbus -- the tribe's last fluent speaker of the Dakota language. Deaths like his to Vanessa Goodthunder represent the ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community, along with four tribal colleges, announced Voices of Our Ancestors, a Dakota language training program. In August 2017 the two-year program will begin in five ...