Language Materials

The Bearer of This Letter illuminates the enduring effects of colonialism by examining the decades-long tension between written words and spoken words in a reservation community. Drawing on archival sources and her own extensive work in the...

Note about the book from Dan:Fr. Eugene Buechel spent his life in service to the Lord. He studied the Lakota people here in South Dakota for many of those years both at St. Francis on the Rosebud reservation and then later at the Holy Rosary Mission on...

A Concise Dictionary of Nakoda (Assiniboine) brings to life the hopes and dreams of Nakoda (Assiniboine) elders. The Nakoda language—also known as Assiniboine, an Ojibwe ethnonym meaning “Stone Enemy”—is an endangered Siouan...

This book is a reprinted series of bible stories that was first published in 1924, written as history, in the language of the Teton Sioux Indians (Lakota), by Father Buechel, who lived and worked among the Lakota people on the Rosebud and Pine Ridge...

This book provides students of Dakota, Lakota and Nakota dialects the proper conjugations for 550 verbs. It features clear explanations of Dakota conjugation patterns, as well as extensive Dakota-Engish and English-Dakota work lists.

A Lakota approach to character building and prevention of alcohol, drugs and tobacco. Primary grades.

This 2 CD set compliments the book which is sold separately.A complete set of spoken-language instructional discs to accompany the text "Reading and Writing the Lakota Language, Lakota Iyapi un Wowapi nahan Yawapi." Male voices: Albert White Hat Sr...

This dictionary was first published by the Smithsonian Institution in 1852. This edition returns to print in an expanded version of the dictionary published in 1890.