The Lakota Sioux language, made famous through its portrayal in the 1990 film “Dances with Wolves,” is now one of only a handful of American Indian languages with enough remaining speakers to survive ...

The summit was born in 2008 to unify the Oceti Sakowin or Sioux people in an effort to re-vitalize the Lakota language and ...

Tipiziwin Tolman , an enrolled member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and a descendant of the Spirit Lake Dakota of North ...

Those who hope they can stop the Dakota Sioux language from dying have hit on the perfect word: Scrabble. A special Scrabble tournament in the language made its debut Friday, pitting teams from Sioux ...

Sure, you can buy Icelandic Scrabble, Croatian Scrabble, even Slovenian Scrabble – if you look hard enough. After all, those languages have entire nations of speakers. But who’d want Scrabble for a ...

When we arrived in Sioux Falls, I was very excited about hearing the Dakota accent. Think Frances McDormand in the movie Fargo. Or try listening to the language in this mash-up video (not embeddable) ...

The Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) and the Upper Sioux Community this week unveiled four new dual-language highway signs in the Dakota language and in English. The signs, marking the ...