#dakota language

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It is.... native american heritage month..... happy native american heritage month to everyone......... I could..... post my plentiful art slop..... but.... I am nervous, so instead, I will share my favorite Dakota word(s) with whomever see's this......

Ĥupáhuwakihdakedaŋ (Ĥoo-pAh-hoo-wah-key-hda-keh-dann(<- my attempt for pronunciation)) I like this word.... because it is fun to say and it is pretty funny.... the English translation means "bat 🦇"

Ĥupáhuwakihdakedaŋ kiŋyáŋ waŋbdáke — I see a flying bat 🦇 :-)

Nina Maĥba tkhaaaaaaa mištiŋme wačiŋ šni — I am also very tired buuuutttt I don't want to sleep

Haŋyetu Wašte Yuhapi — you all have a good night Pidamayaye for reading (o´▽`o)ﾉ

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Meet the World’s First Dakota Language Majors

The new Dakota language major connects both heritage and non-heritage students with the Dakota language and traditions.

At the University of Minnesota you can major in Dakota.

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Here is the full artwork featured in our banner!

Please go support the work of Marlena Myles here!

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c̣aƞte skuya aƞpetu waṡte yahi

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happy sweetheart day

💖

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Doris Pratt, Sioux Valley elder who spent decades preserving Dakota language, dies at 83 | CBC News

An elder from Sioux Valley Dakota Nation, Man., who spent the bulk of her life preserving the Dakota language through teaching and by writing dictionaries and glossaries has passed away.

In an interview with CBC News in November 2018, Pratt said her work to preserve the language formally started in 1972.

She said she felt she needed to do something to preserve the language, which was her first language, after becoming frustrated with a lack of resources.

"I felt nothing was done for Dakota language that I knew of in Canada," Pratt said

Informally, however, her work to save the language became while she was attending residential school in Elkhorn, Man., when she said she would have to translate English instructions into Dakota for students who couldn't speak English.

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She said while residential schools may have suppressed traditional languages, and in some cases driven them to extinction, there is time to save those that are still being spoken, and hoped people in her community stepped up after she died to keep them alive.

"There's nothing stopping you from taking it back," Pratt said. "Learn the language. It empowers people when they have their own. Your language, take it back."

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Ledger art I made

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Ĥupahuwakihdakedaŋ caŋakaŋyaŋkapi haŋška akaŋ yaŋke

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Zicátaŋka Yutapi Aŋpetu Wašte(happy turkey day)