Lakota language program fills void (fwd link)

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Lakota language program fills void

Program at USD, North Dakota school raises the bar

NOVEMBER 29, 2010
USA

Once, the Lakota language was suppressed in South Dakota schools.

Now, many schools on or near reservations give children a taste of the
language, with words for colors, numbers and family members.

But there's been a lack of formal structure taught in schools because
instructors, although perhaps fluent in Lakota themselves, had no
training in sentence structure or conjugation.

That's all going to change with the development of a bachelor's degree
program at the University of South Dakota and Sitting Bull College in
Fort Yates, N.D., designed to train educators to teach Lakota as a
second language.

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