Lakota: The Revitalization of Language and the Persistence of Spirit

jason Coppola @ Truthout - New programs to teach and restore the lost language and cultural heritage of the Lakota Sioux offers hope for the children who live on reservations where dire poverty, suicide, unemployment and substance abuse have become a way of life.

For more than a century the Lakota language endured a deliberate and systematic attempt to eradicate it.

As a tool of colonization, the killing of language was a means of severing indigenous people's ties to their culture, history and spirituality.  Read more.