<font size="2"><font face="georgia,serif">Berenstain Bears help keep Lakota language beating<br><br>SARAH REINECKE • <a href="mailto:SREINECKE@ARGUSLEADER.COM">SREINECKE@ARGUSLEADER.COM</a> • AUGUST 24, 2010<br>USA<br><br>
Soon, the popular Berenstain Bears cartoon characters will help bring the Lakota language to life in homes across the region.<br><br>Twenty episodes of the animated cartoon series will be translated, recorded and broadcast on South Dakota Public Television starting in the fall of next year, with all dialogue in Lakota.<br>
<br>It's the first time in the United States that any cartoon series has been translated to a Native American language and widely distributed, said Wilhelm Meya, executive director of Lakota Language Consortium, a nonprofit organization that partnered with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe to co-produce the Lakota version of the series.<br>
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