Teaching the Lakota language to the Lakota (fwd link)

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*Teaching the Lakota language to the Lakota*

by Kayla Gahagan
@kaylagahagan
December 1, 2013  9:00AM ET

Only 6,000 people speak the Lakota language, few of them under 65, but
people are working to keep it alive

PINE RIDGE INDIAN RESERVATION, S.D. — Dodge tumbleweeds and stray dogs.
Venture down a deeply rutted dirt road. Walk into the warmth of a home
heated by a wood-burning stove. There'll be a deer roast marinating on the
kitchen counter.

It is here, in a snug home that sits on the edge of nearly 3 million acres
of South Dakota prairie, that you'll find the heart of a culture. It's
here, at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, where Joe and Randi Boucher
make dinner for their two young daughters. The smaller one squirms and is
gently admonished: "Ayustan," she is told — leave it alone.

It's here where the Lakota language is spoken, taught and absorbed in
day-to-day life.

​Access full article below:
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/12/1/when-a-people-andalanguageareoneteachinglakotatothelakota.html
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