Those who hope they can stop the Dakota Sioux language from dying think they've hit on the perfect word: Scrabble.

The Lakota Sioux language, made famous through its portrayal in the 1990 film “Dances with Wolves,” is now one of only a handful of American Indian languages with enough remaining speakers to ...

Sure, you can buy Icelandic Scrabble, Croatian Scrabble, even Slovenian Scrabble – if you look hard enough. After all, those languages have entire nations of speakers. But who’d want Sc… ...

After teaching children life lessons for nearly five decades through their books and recent TV series, the bears are now helping revive the American Indian tribal language of Lakota. Guest host ...

At the Tampa, Florida, ANTIQUES ROADSHOW, appraiser Thomas Lecky was handed a book in near-perfect condition called Lahcotah: Dictionary of the Sioux Language. The book, bound with staples, was ...

Lakota, a Siouan language, currently holds an EGIDS level of 6b (threatened). Interestingly enough, Lakota is very well documented but is still losing speakers. The number of first language Lakota ...

Sioux Falls people have 137 ways to say please and thank you. That’s the latest tally on the number of languages and dialects spoken by the 166,000 local residents. It’s a number that connects ...

The Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) and the Upper Sioux Community this week unveiled four new dual-language highway signs in the Dakota language and in English. The signs, marking ...

The Ho-Chunk are indigenous to Wisconsin and their traditional speak is a Siouan language, which is similar to Ioway, Otoe and Missouria languages.

The Lower Sioux, who partnered with two public school districts — Redwood and Cedar Mountain — in offering the class, also developed a new Dakota language app this year.

Mark Ruffalo, 56, helped lead the charge to dub The Avengers (2012) with the Lakota language to shine a light on the once-banned form of speech in an effort to revitalize the language of the Sioux ...