iPhone app teaches language, culture to Lakota children (fwd link)

[Phillip E Cash Cash]

iPhone app teaches language, culture to Lakota children

By RUTH MOON Rapid City Journal | Posted: Sunday, March 11, 2012 8:00 pm

RAPID CITY, S.D. -- A new iPhone application combines centuries-old Native
American culture and cutting-edge smartphone technology to teach youngsters
the Lakota language.

The Lakota Toddler app, now available for free in the iTunes store, is the
second app by software developers Isreal Shortman and Rusty Calder. The two
developers worked with Arlo Iron Cloud, the morning radio announcer for
KILI Radio in Porcupine, to create an app that teaches Lakota vocabulary
through text, pictures and sounds.


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