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| Title | Article: Generation Gap Strains Efforts To Save Lakota Language |
| Body | From http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/news/article_3986038e-474f-11df-be8c-001cc4c03286.html Vanishing Words, Vanishing World: Generation gap strains efforts to save Lakota language Kayla Gahagan April 17, 2010 As a preschooler, Lisa Yellow Horse knew only one language, Lakota. Now a grown woman on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, she embodies what many in her generation feel: a paralyzing fear to speak a language she is no longer fluent in and confusion about how to pass it down before it disappears. "I wish I would be able to teach the kids the language, but I have to learn it myself." And then there's the elderly, the generation that possesses the single most important key to Lakota language survival - fluency. And they, too, recognize that something needs to happen, and soon. But many are haunted by the memories of Catholic boarding schools where they were stripped of their right to practice their religion and speak the language. While most agree that the language is in peril, people of different generations view the problem through very different lenses. Read the full article at http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/news/article_3986038e-474f-11df-be8c-001cc4c03286.html Read a related article about language obsolescence and Lakota at http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/news/article_208e3642-4742-11df-983a-001cc4c03286.html |
| Source | Rapid City Journal |
| Inputdate | 2010-04-18 11:20:43 |
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| Publishdate | 2010-04-19 00:00:00 |
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