ROCHESTER, Minn. (AP) - These days, Dakota - the native language of the Prairie Island Indian Community - isn’t widely spoken. But the tribe is trying to change that and the pandemic has offered them ...

Tylena Stahly, of Norfolk, Neb., laughs while trying to keep up with a lesson on words of the Dakota language during a Native American cultural day on Monday. The Ponca Tribe of Nebraska sponsored the ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Joe Bendickson was growing up, first on the Lake Traverse Reservation near the Minnesota-South Dakota border and then in St. Paul, he did not speak Dakota, his ancestral tongue. Few did.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

At just 19 years old, Akiša Peters of the Sisseton Wahpeton Sioux Tribe is on the faculty at the Sisseton Wahpeton Tribal College. He specializes in a language that is thousands of years old, that not ...

Rayanna Lennes, reporter Catharine Richert, class teacher Arthur Lockwood, Kim Campbell, Alyssa Childs, Danielle Campbell and other class members take part in an online Dakota language class put on by ...