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	Dakota - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dakota language, the language of the Santee, which is now considered a dialect of the Sioux language
		The Dakotas, a collective term used in the United States to refer to the states of North Dakota and South Dakota together
		Dakota MRT Station, a proposed underground Mass Rapid Transit station on the Circle MRT Line in Singapore
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dakota (343 words)

	"the People's Paths!" NAIIP News Path! - Ojibwe/Dakota Language Revitalization
		The Language Revitalization Alliance is a gathering of elders; fluent Dakota and Ojibwe speakers, early childhood and childcare providers, members from all eleven tribes in Minnesota, educators, school achievement, and education advocates, and community members.
		Because the Ojibwe and Dakota languages were forcefully and often violently taken away thorough the boarding schools, many people see language revitalization as an important step in reclaiming culture, educational achievement, and a positive image of one’s self.
		The Dakota Ojibwe Language Revitalization Alliance will be sharing their stories, visions and dreams for a Minnesota where the Dakota and Ojibwe languages are revitalized, where members of the Dakota and Ojibwe communities hear their language every day, reclaim their positive self identity, and unlock their great potential for educational achievements.
	yvwiiusdinvnohii.net /News2004/0404/NAECLC040416LangRevitalization.html (808 words)

	Lakota Dakota Home Page: Language
		Siouan Languages Bibliography:The purpose of this web site is to bring together in one place a searchable bibliography of all the linguistic and language related work done on the Siouan-Catawban languages.
		Dakota Language Home Page: An innovative instructor in languages, Jim Green utilizes "The Silent Way" to teach Native languages with respect.
		Lakhota · Lakhota Language & Culture This Yahoo Club (membership by subscription) is dedicated to the speaking learning and teaching of Lakota and Dakota language and culture.
	puffin.creighton.edu /lakota/index_language.html (500 words)

	Canku Ota - April 8, 2000 - Preserving Dakota Language
		Pezihutazizi Wahohpi Wohdakapi Unspe (Yellow Medicine Language Learning Nest) is a preschool meant to turn the tide of a crisis, one in which a language has nearly slipped past the grasp of its proud culture.
		The Dakota words and phrases that have begun to creep into the preschoolers' vocabulary are spoken in other places, including Nebraska, the Dakotas and Canada.
		Dakota pronunciations by fluent speakers, for example, are being recorded for the project.
	turtletrack.org /Issues00/Co04082000/CO_04082000_PreservingDakota.htm (2053 words)

	Dakota Culture and History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The number of Dakota casualties is not known) and the subsequent removal of the Dakota from Minnesota.
		A review of the oppression of the Dakota people and their difficult history which includes many horrible episodes is in some ways not dissimilar to the oppression and holocausts of other people such as the Jews or Irish.
		Traditional Dakota spiritual leaders are creationists and do not believe in the Bering Strait hypothesis for the peopling of North America nor the evolution of human beings in a Darwinian sense.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Acropolis/5579/dakota.html (2866 words)

	Former U professor works to preserve Dakota language - Minnesota Daily
		Schommer, 71, born in South Dakota to a Dakota father and an Ojibwe mother - who taught their daughter only the Dakota language - said that bus ride took her into a "different world." She had to learn English and a new way of life.
		She eventually taught Dakota language and culture for 23 years at the University and in Twin Cities school districts.
		Darrel Kipp, a language revitalization researcher and founder of a language immersion program in Montana, said the biggest barrier to language preservation is that America is a monolingual society.
	www.mndaily.com /articles/2001/09/21/27797 (1059 words)

	Dakota Sioux Language Saved by Scrabble - CBS News
		A special Scrabble tournament in the language made its debut Friday, pitting teams from Sioux reservation schools in North Dakota, South Dakota and Manitoba.
		The game is part of the tribe's campaign to revitalize the Dakota language, now spoken fluently by a dwindling number of elders.
		After a few minutes of frantic consultation with the official Dakota Sioux Scrabble dictionary, a team built on the base to form the word sapa, pronounced "shah-pa," or dirty, a word worth seven points.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2006/03/27/ap/strange/mainD8GJSHUG0.shtml (328 words)

	Ethnologue 14 report for language code:DHG
		The following is the entry for this language as it appeared in the 14th edition (2000).
		It has been superseded by the corresponding entry in the 15th edition (2005).
		Some children are being raised speaking the language in the northern Plains (1998).
	www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=DHG (130 words)

	Language Preservation/Retention (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Younger members of the tribe may understand phrases, learn Dakota songs and otherwise have some limited knowledge of the language, but none of them are fully fluent speakers.
		The Dakotah (Sioux) language has within it many, many phrases like, “I love you;” phrases that are also rich with meaning, phrases that are now in danger of disappearing forever, phrases like “mitakuye owasin.” Many people translate “mitakuye owasin” as “all my relatives.” This is correct.
		The evidence is that fluency in a tribal language increase the chances that the children involved will achieve academically, and succeed in life.
	www.indian-affairs.org /languagepreservation.htm (1068 words)

	Sioux language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This Indigenous languages of the Americas-related article is a stub.
		Parks, Douglas R.; and Rankin, Robert L. The Siouan languages.
		de Reuse, Willem J. A supplementary bibliography of Lakota languages and linguistics (1887-1990).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dakota_language (233 words)

	University of North Dakota--Language Scholarships
		Applications are available from the Department of Modern & Classical Languages in late November, and are due back in mid-January.
		Interested students should apply at the Languages Department office, Merrifield 320, in March, and must also complete information at the Financial Aid Office.
		Scholarship recipients are normally selected in April, notified in May, and receive half of their award at the beginning of the fall semester, and half at the beginning of the spring semester.
	www.und.nodak.edu /dept/lang/scholar.html (251 words)

	Article: News - Scrabble could help keep the Dakota language alive
		By that standard, the Dakota culture is in stark danger of extinction.
		The Dakota were the first to be pushed from their homeland by white settlers in the mid-1800s.
		He's happy to revive the language his parents were punished for speaking at the turn of the last century.
	www.ocregister.com /ocregister/homepage/abox/article_1088601.php (1191 words)

	Scrabble helps keep Dakota language alive
		The Dakota Scrabble initiative was authorized by Hasbro, the maker of Scrabble, and supported financially by the company's chairman, Alan Hassenfeld.
		Seaboy, who grew up with Dakota as his first language, was pleased by what he saw Friday.
		The Scrabble tournament was the culmination of a scholastic Dakota language bowl, now in its fourth year.
	www.bismarcktribune.com /articles/2006/03/26/news/state/112172.txt (396 words)

	Dakota Language - Another Path/Deafhomeschool.com
		All four men were missionaries sent by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions to work among the Dakota of the Minnesota River valley.
		Based on extensive research and pedagogy on the Rosebud Reservation, this elementary grammar of Lakota, one of three languages spoken by the Sioux nation, is the first written by a native Lakota speaker.
		Moreover, he documents the impact of the acculturation process on language, showing how Lakota evolved as a result of non-Indian influences.
	www.deafhomeschool.com /study/languages/dakota.html (520 words)

	Free Online Language Courses
		Word2Word is pleased to provide these links in the hope of all people developing a better understanding of others through the use of language.
		Please note that some of the courses may require your browser to have the ability to read the language being learned.
		The links we provide are to free resources; however, if you do need to purchase language learning software, tapes or books then you can visit this link.
	www.word2word.com /coursead.html (291 words)

	"the People's Paths!" NAIIP News Path! - Dakota Language Table (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA - The Dakota Language Society is sponsoring their Dakota Language Table at a new location this school year.
		The Dakota Language Table is free and open to the public.
		The DLT is for anyone interested in learning the Dakota language.
	www.yvwiiusdinvnohii.net /News2001/0110/DLS011009LanguageTable.htm (68 words)

	Dakota-Lakota Language (Lakhota, Dakhota, Yankton, Yanktonai, Sioux)
		Dakota and Lakota are Siouan languages of the Great Plains.
		The Nakota languages--Stoney and Assiniboine--are still closely related languages but are impossible for a Dakota or Lakota speaker to understand without language lessons, as Dutch is to English speakers.
		As a complement to our Dakota/Lakota language information, we would like to share our collection of indexed links about the Sioux people and various aspects of their society.
	www.native-languages.org /dakota.htm (591 words)

	The Dakota or Lakota Language Homepage: Beginning Reading, Literacy and Phonological Awareness: Lesson 1
		Design bias is at work when early reading exercises work for children from homes with higher levels of preliteracy but don't work well for children who come to school with lower levels of preliteracy awareness.
		If you are interested in helping very young children learn to read English...or any other language...you can begin with Introduction to Design Bias in Early Literacy Activities.
		Alternate back and forth until you (and your throat) are comfortable with all the sounds in the language.
	www.alliance2k.org /daklang1/daklang1.html (390 words)

	The Dakota Language Homepage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		A note on requests for word/phrase translations: We appreciate the great interest in the language.
		As you will discover by going through our site, however, we believe that learning by translation is a hindrance to the actual speaking of the language.
		We will continue to provide you with opportunities to speak the language, but we feel that offering translations runs counter to our goal.
	www.alliance2k.org /daklang/dakota9463.htm (107 words)

	Language Log: Dakota Scrabble, anyone?
		original article about the debut of Dakota Scrabble (shortened for the AP wire) notes that the tiles have all the appropriate
		Organizers got backing from Hasbro to make the Dakota version of Scrabble (along with the 207-page Official Dakota Scrabble Dictionary), and they also received support from the Association on American Indian Affairs and Sisseton-Wahpeton College.
		The AAIA and the college have supported previous efforts to revitalize the language, such as the recording of Dakota rap songs last year.
	itre.cis.upenn.edu /~myl/languagelog/archives/002965.html (226 words)

	Dakota language and culture
		FROM WIKIPEDIA Lakota or Lakhota is the largest of the five major dialects of the Sioux language.
		The Lakota dialect represents one of the largest Native American language speech communities left in the United States, having approx.
		The effort at Tekakwitha is to provide a respectful presence in which both the visitor and the paintings, drawings and sketches can be comfortable and to make their statement in peace.
	www.lonweb.org /link-dakota.htm (719 words)

	Dakoteyah Wogdaka! Talk Dakota!
		The languages and cultures of native people have been suppressed since the start of European colonization.
		White laws that forcibly outlawed the use of native languages meant the decline of fluency as well as a loss in cultural coherency and identity.
		Dakoteyah Wogdaka counteracts that suppression and means to preserve the language and lifeways of the Ihanktonwan tribe.
	www.nativeshop.org /dakoteyah/dakoteyah-wogdaka.html (354 words)

	South Dakota Politics: March 26, 2006 - April 1, 2006
		Former South Dakota Senator Tom Daschle says his appointment to the Mayo Clinic's board of directors would not put him at odds with the Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad's coal train project.
		If the former Congressman and Governor had any intentions of running again in the Rushmore State, it would be a very silly thing to accept a job that puts him, at least in appearance, in opposition to the interests of that state.
		As soon as South Dakota gives him his law license back, Bill Janklow goes to work for Minnesota and against South Dakota, putting the new railroad project at risk.
	southdakotapolitics.blogs.com /south_dakota_politics/2006/week13 (10135 words)

	DAKOTA LANGUAGE PLANNING PROJECT
		Go to THIS PAGE and copy survey and paste into the body of an email, answer and send to: kangi42159@aol.com or print the survey, answer the questions and mail to: MMDC, P.O. Box 50835, Mendota, MN 55150 We appreciate your interest in the Dakota Language.
		This survey will be used to assess the Dakota Language in the Mendota Mdewakanton Dakota Community and other Dakota people in the Twin Cities Metropolitan area and will be a basis for a community plan to increase the Dakota Language resources.
		Funded by the Administration for Native Americans and the Mendota Mdewakanton Dakota Community.
	www.mendotadakota.org /whatsnew/surveyinstructions.htm (140 words)

	Indianz.Com Message Board - Scrabble saves Dakota language
		HANKINSON, N.D. - Those who hope they can stop the Dakota Sioux language from dying have hit on the perfect word: Scrabble.
		The first word to take shape was sa, pronounced "shah" — the color red.
		Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
	www.indianz.com /board/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=19978 (281 words)

	Dakota Dictionary Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The first is for searching in Dakota to find English translations and the second box is to search in English for Dakota translations.
		To search in Dakota you will need the Dakota font.
		If you cannot see the Dakota word for happy below twice, please download and install the Dakota font on your computer and restart your web browser.
	fmdb.cla.umn.edu /dakota (294 words)

	MMDC - Whats new? - DAKOTA LANGUAGE PLANNING PROJECT
		Copy survey and paste into the body of an email, answer and send to: Blbmmdc@aol.com or print the survey, answer the questions and mail to: MMDC, P.O. Box 50835, Mendota, MN 55150 We appreciate your interest in the Dakota Language.
		If you were to learn Dakota, the top five reasons would be: (Place the numbers 1-5 in the blank to the left of your choice)
		______The preservation of the Dakota language is unrealistic
	www.mendotadakota.org /whatsnew/survey.htm (530 words)

	Find in a Library: Dakota wowapi wakan kin. The New Testament, in the Dakota language.
		Find in a Library: Dakota wowapi wakan kin.
		To find this item in a library, enter a postal code, state, province, or country in the field above.
		WorldCat is provided by OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. on behalf of its member libraries.
	worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/616f39dfc631684fa19afeb4da09e526.html (43 words)

	Dakota Culture and Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		We provide lessons, translation, and history regarding the Dakota Culture and Language.
		We have created one of the largest online information networks for the Dakota Culture and Language.
		The information provided is free but if you'd like to support us then feel free to click on the ads on the bottom of the pages or perhaps send a donation through paypal to:
	www.dakotaculture.com (91 words)

	ABC News: Dakota Sioux Language Saved by Scrabble (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Scrabble Tournament in North Dakota Helps Revitalize Dakota Sioux Language
		HANKINSON, N.D. Mar 27, 2006 (AP)— Those who hope they can stop the Dakota Sioux language from dying have hit on the perfect word: Scrabble.
		The first word to take shape was sa, pronounced "shah" the color red.
	abcnews.go.com /US/wireStory?id=1771439 (272 words)

	Main Page - Dakota Culture Wiki
		Welcome to Dakota Culture and Language wiki, a collaborative project to produce a free resource for people who would like to learn more about the Dakota People.
		Feel free to take a look at the articles that we have online and come back often to use this site as a resource for finding translations for Dakota words, lesson plans, and culturally related topics regarding the Dakota People.
		Recent Entries in the Dakota Culture and Language Wiki
	www.dakotaculture.com /wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page (102 words)

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