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 ...

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 ...

Tammy DeCoteau devotes much of her time thinking about how she can coax children into doing something that came naturally to their great-grandparents: speak in their native Dakota language. In recent ...

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.

RED WING — One thing Barry Hand is trying to get across to his students is this: Language is power. For the first time in years, students at Red Wing High School can take a class in the Dakota ...

Four years ago, some 200 people gathered to celebrate the removal of a controversial structure at the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden. This weekend a new piece, created by Dakota artist Angela Two Stars, ...

One thing Barry Hand is trying to get across to his students is this: Language is power. For the first time in years, students at Red Wing High School can take a class in the Dakota Language. It’s not ...

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 ...

When the city of Woodbury this summer chose names for four new city parks, it did so after a lengthy search including a consultant's effort to consider names in the Dakota language. The consultant ...