REDCO garnered startup funding through an anonymous philanthropic contribution and is now in the process of hiring a project manager and Lakota language teacher to build up the program. REDCO will pay ...

The Berenstain Bears have helped children curb junk-food addictions and organize messy rooms for half a century. Now, from their treehouse in idyllic Bear Country, Papa Bear, Mama Bear, and their cubs ...

Children learning Lakota language at Wakanyeja Tokeyachi immersion school run by REDCO’s sister organization Sicangu Community Development Corporation for elementary students on the Rosebud ...

Among the 600 languages spoken in the five boroughs is Lakota, a Native American language spoken primarily by members of the Lakota tribes in North and South Dakota. According to the Indiana-based ...

In a small room in the basement of New York University, Aru Apaza sits with a group of a dozen others and gushes about American Indian Community House – a nonprofit that has become a home away from ...

Although reading the words helps, immersing students in a language lab where they hear and speak the words repeatedly creates better learning, Iron Hawk said. Condon, a tribal member, said that some ...

FARGO - The Berenstain Bears, a popular educational children's cartoon program on public television, soon will be speaking in the language of the Lakota Sioux. Public television networks in North ...

STANDING ROCK INDIAN RESERVATION, S.D. — Ray Taken Alive had been fighting for this moment for two years: At his urging, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Council was about to take the rare and severe ...

Many Lakota people agree: It's imperative to revitalize the Lakota language. But how exactly to do that is a matter of broader debate. Should... In Lakota Nation, people are asking: Who does a ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) – When Peter Hill’s daughter was born two years ago, he made a conscious decision to only speak Lakota to her. Hill, who is fluent in Lakota after learning it as a second ...

Albert White Hat Sr. knows that at a certain age, young people like to carve their initials in things. But, he said, "my mother said, when you leave your name in public places, it becomes 'hunwin,'" ...

It’s a language that opens communication without saying a word, and dozens of Lakota high school students are now increasingly fluent thanks to the district’s new learning program. Students at both ...