Language revitalization depends on creating print, online, and app resources for learners. The more resources that exist for a language, the healthier and more vibrant the revitalization pathway.
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You can use this site from the Lakota Language Consortium to download a mobile Lakota Language dictionary.
Approximately 12,000–15,000 years ago people from northeast Asia crossed the Bering Land Bridge to enter and inhabit North America beginning in Alaska.
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This insightful article discusses how traditional Native American diets continue to influence modern Native American cuisine. Of especial interest in this article is a link to a map showing the location of the major tribes in the United States.
Native Americans are renowned for knowledge about medicinal plants, started using plants & herbs for healing after watching animals eat plants when sick.
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This excellent site offers some great insight into traditional uses of medicinal plans by Native American communities.
Native American, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian healers all have a long history of using indigenous, or native, plants for a wide variety of medicinal purposes. Medicinal plants and their applications are as diverse as the tribes who use them.
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Visit this site to learn how medicinal plants have been used by Native American tribes from around the country.
T.F. Riggs High School Senior Max Sevier presents information about powwows and Fancy Dancing. Max Sevier is a Fancy Dancer with 16 years of experience. This presentation was made in the T.F. Riggs Library (Pierre, SD) on October 16, 2019.
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Enjoy this presentation on Fancy Dancing and powwows given by Pierre resident and T.F. Riggs High School senior Max Sevier.
A winter count is a pictographic record of historical/memorable events for a tiospaye (community). The winter count, used by many Plains Indians, is a method of preserving history.
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A winter count is a pictographic record of historical/memorable events for a tiospaye (community). This website gives you important information about this traditional practice for recording tribal history.
Elaine Ward, a member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, shares her boarding school experience at the Cheyenne River Boarding School (Agency, SD) during the 1950s & 1960s. This presentation was made at T.F. Riggs High School Library in Pierre, SD on 10/15/2019.
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Elaine Ward, an aunt to Donna Stroup, Pierre School District's Native American Education Coordinator, shares her boarding school experience at the Cheyenne River Boarding School in the 1950s & 1960s. Mrs. Ward is an excellent storyteller.
The Lost Book Of Remedies : http://bit.ly/natralremedybook Native Americans are renowned for their medicinal plant expertise. It is reported they initially started making use of plants as well as natural herbs for recovery after viewing animals consume certain plants when they were ill.
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This video has some excellent insights on the traditional medicinal use of plants by various Native American tribes in the United States.
The staple foods of the Hawaiians were taro and poi, breadfruit, sweet potato, bananas, taro tops and some other leafy vegetables, limu, fish, and other sea foods, chicken and pig.
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This excellent resource looks at the traditional foods of the Hawaiian peoples.
This paper written by Drs. George Morgan and Ronald R. Weedon looks at the traditional and modern use of medicinal plants for healing within the Oglala Lakota culture.
Our Lakota family owned business creates Indigenous herbal remedies that are sustainably sourced and 100% natural. We strive to honor the land and our ancestors by using traditional Lakota knowledge and practices, and dedicate a portion of our profits to replanting the medicines we use.
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Great site to learn about a locally owned South Dakota botanical business.
This project is based on the indigenous plants of the Dakotas–their names and uses by the Sicangu Lakota people, and secondary compounds produced by those plants that may be of current interest. The foundation of the research is built on the work of Father Eugene Buechel (1874-1954) who moved to the reservation of Rosebud in 1902, and spent the rest of his life at the Rosebud Reservation and the adjacent Pine Ridge Reservation.
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This comprehensive directory of information includes plants' characteristics and medicinal uses, as well as both their Lakota and English names.
Based on interviews, research, and a comprehensive review of historical documents, this document lists the medicinally important plants of the Lakota, Dakota and Nakota nations.
From 1860 to 1920, thousands of homesteaders poured into Dakota. Free land offered by the Homestead Act drew people from across the country and overseas. Some learned the ways of the land and stuck it out. They rooted here, making Dakota home for themselves and their descendants. Others came for only a short while before moving on. This exhibit examines the homesteading experience in Dakota.
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This document explores the role homesteading played in the building of South Dakota.
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Visit this site to learn more about the Oglala Lakota College, an American Indian college, located in Kyle, South Dakota. For more information, visit: https://collegefund.org/about-us/tribal-college-map/oglala-lakota-college/