Bands focus on preservation (language)

[Andre Cramblit]

LANGUAGE REVITALIZATION:Groups work to save Minnesota's first languages
and cultures.

BY STEVE KUCHERA
NEWS TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

Minnesota's very name comes from a Dakota word meaning "sky-tinted
waters." Yet fewer than 30 fully fluent Dakota speakers remain in the
state, according to the Dakota Ojibwe Language Revitalization Alliance.

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