ROCHESTER - Coen Wagner was a digging machine outside Dakota Middle School last Friday. And it was welcomed. The 8-year-old helped plant in the school’s medicine garden last fall — crops that included ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The late Glenn Wasicuna taught Dakota language classes for about 25 years. The rural Good Thunder resident was one of two teachers in Minnesota who spoke Dakota as their first language.

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 ...

Joe Bendickson comes from a Dakota Indian family, but he didn’t know about his ancestors’ language until he was in high school. "When I was little, my parents never told me we had a language," he said ...