Only 2,000 people speak Lakota anymore, according to one report from the Lakota Language Consortium. That's down from 6,000 Lakota speakers a decade ago. An effort is underway to save the language, ...

The first-ever Lakota-language news site helps ensure that language stays up to date and relevant, says one of the site's creators. A website published in Lakota is the newest part of an effort to ...

The endangered Lakota language has lost one of its greatest supporters. Albert White Hat, who was instrumental in teaching and preserving the American Indian language and translated the Hollywood ...