The Berenstain Bears have helped children curb junk-food addictions and organize messy rooms for half a century. Now, from their treehouse in idyllic Bear Country, Papa Bear, Mama Bear, and their cubs ...

By Amy "Frankie" Felegy for Arts Midwest. Broadcast version by Mike Moen for Greater Dakota News Service reporting for the ...

STANDING ROCK INDIAN RESERVATION, S.D. — Ray Taken Alive had been fighting for this moment for two years: At his urging, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Council was about to take the rare and severe ...

Lakota for the "Compassionate Bear Family," the animated series "Mathó Waúnsila Thiwáhe" is the first animated series ever translated into an American Indian language and began airing this week on ...

Among the 600 languages spoken in the five boroughs is Lakota, a Native American language spoken primarily by members of the Lakota tribes in North and South Dakota. According to the Indiana-based ...

PINE RIDGE RESERVATION, S.D. (KELO) — For years, the Red Cloud Indian School has been working to create a Lakota Immersion Program for its students on the Pine Ridge Reservation. And in 2018, that ...

All of Red Cloud’s 600 students—from the youngest to the oldest—learn Lakota through the school’s language curriculum. Philomine Lakota, who teaches the most advanced high school language class, says ...

PINE RIDGE, S.D. -- When Tristiana Brewer studies Lakota Language and Culture at Pine Ridge High School with her teacher, Will Peters, she scrutinizes the small details. Then, before long, larger ...

But when Taken Alive, 35, asked for copies, he was shocked to learn that the consortium, run by a white man, had copyrighted the language materials, which were based on generations of Lakota tradition ...

A Lakota Language Class for Families is being offered for free and is co-sponsored by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's Language and Culture Institute and the Native American Development Center. The ...

It’s a language that opens communication without saying a word, and dozens of Lakota high school students are now increasingly fluent thanks to the district’s new learning program. Students at both ...