[Edling] Nonprofit Receives Grant to Teach Lakota Language in NYC, Despite Standing Rock Ban

[Francis M. Hult via Edling]

The City

Nonprofit Receives Grant to Teach Lakota Language in NYC, Despite Standing
Rock Ban

The New York Community Trust, the state’s oldest public charity, awarded
nonprofit The Language Conservancy a $44,000 grant in late April to teach
the Lakota language, via the Marcia Ashman Fund for Children...Through the
NYCT grant, six young Native Americans from the city would intern with the
Language Conservancy for two months in its Indiana offices. The funding
also goes toward bringing Native American language instructors to New York
City to teach Lakota locally on weekends...On May 3, the Tribal Council of
the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe passed a resolution specifically banning The
Language Conservancy and The Lakota Language Consortium — two partnering
nonprofits that strive to preserve Native languages — from operating on its
reservation, citing concerns with a lack of cultural sensitivity in the
groups’ teaching style.

Full story:
https://www.thecity.nyc/education/2022/5/25/23142187/teaching-lakota-language-in-nyc-despite-standing-rock-ban
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