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 ...

Rayanna Lennes, reporter Catharine Richert, class teacher Arthur Lockwood, Kim Campbell, Alyssa Childs, Danielle Campbell and other class members take part in an online Dakota language class put on by ...

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 ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Introduced in fall 2023, the University of Minnesota’s new Dakota language major is part of the movement throughout Dakota communities to increase the number of Dakota language speakers ...

A new University of Minnesota Living Learning Community (LLC) called the Dakota Language House will launch next fall to advance and support students’ learning of the Dakota language. Radius Apartments ...

One thing Barry Hand is trying to get across to his students is this: Language is power. For the first time in years, students at Red Wing High School can take a class in the Dakota Language. It’s not ...

The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community gathers for their Dakota Language Bowl skills competition at the Hoċokata Ṫi cultural center on April 25, in Shakopee. When it comes to staying informed in ...

RED WING — One thing Barry Hand is trying to get across to his students is this: Language is power. For the first time in years, students at Red Wing High School can take a class in the Dakota ...

Joe Bendickson comes from a Dakota Indian family, but he didn’t know about his ancestors’ language until he was in high school. "When I was little, my parents never told me we had a language," he said ...