Marilyn Allen, who is part Dakota and Lakota, looks through a Dakota-English dictionary during Dakota language class at Minnesota State University. Allen said she is taking the class because she wants ...

ROCHESTER - Coen Wagner was a digging machine outside Dakota Middle School last Friday. And it was welcomed. The 8-year-old helped plant in the school’s medicine garden last fall — crops that included ...

STANDING ROCK SIOUX RESERVATION — Sunshine Carlow is racing to build a generation of fluent Lakota and Dakota language speakers before it’s too late. Carlow, 40, helped lead a three-week Dakota/Lakota ...