Learning The Lakota Language

[Francis Hult]

<http://faculty.coehd.utsa.edu/fhult/> 
Keloland Television

 

Learning The Lakota Language

 

Less than 70% of Native American students who attend South Dakota public schools, graduate from high school. But the Sioux Falls School District is working to turn those numbers around by introducing the Native American culture and language into the classroom. 

High school students in the Sioux Falls School District can take world languages like Spanish or German, but a new dialect is also making it's way into the classroom. 

Native American students at Washington High school are enrolled in the districts new Lakota Language class. Here they're learning much more than vowels and consonants. 

 

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