Lakota Language Activist Russell Means Diagnosed with Cancer

[Mathias Bullerman]

"As part of his vision to create Lakotah, Means started the Treaty  
School, an immersion-language school for young children in a  
three-story prototype of an oversized Lakota tipi on his property. The  
structure remains unfinished, and the school never grew beyond a  
handful of students.

"Because of our poverty, that ultimately failed," he said.

People couldn't afford gas to bring their children to school, much  
less tuition, he said.

"We're losing our language, and nobody cares," he said of a cultural  
reality that he sees as the biggest disappointment of his life."

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