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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lakota, a Siouan language, currently holds an EGIDS level of 6b (threatened). Interestingly enough, Lakota is very well documented but is still losing speakers. The number of first language Lakota ...

FORT TOTTEN, N.D.-Inside a classroom on the Spirit Lake Nation reservation, a group of Dakota students are dedicating the next two years of their lives to preserving their language and strengthening ...

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 ...

Some high-ranking government officials in South Dakota, a state whose name is in part taken from the Sioux language, are formally opposing the restoration of a Lakota Sioux name to the state’s tallest ...

Sioux Falls people have 137 ways to say please and thank you. That’s the latest tally on the number of languages and dialects spoken by the 166,000 local residents. It’s a number that connects the ...