The effort to preserve the Dakota language and lifeways received a major boost this week as Dakota Wicohan was named the 2025 ...

"We're keeping it alive. We're speaking it with each other, and we're encouraging more families to come together," said ...

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 ...

At Dakota Tipi School, Garrett Tacan is on a mission to keep Indigenous languages and culture alive among students from ...

The University of Minnesota’s unique Dakota language and Ojibwe language majors allow students to pursue several paths involving their culture. Students are allowed the opportunity to learn the ...

Three Native women—a president, a professor, and a student—are sharing their personal journeys in higher education in a new book that highlights the experiences of Native women finding place and ...

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 ...

For nearly 150 years, the voices of Dakota men imprisoned after the Dakota Conflict of 1862 went unheard. But the details of their imprisonment are starting to emerge, in letters written by those ...

GOOD THUNDER — An area man who died last month was one of only two first-language Dakota speakers left in Minnesota who teach the language. Conversations in Dakota here have been on the increase; and ...