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On this edition of Your Call, we re discussing how COVID is affecting Native communities and putting Native languages at risk. Fewer than 120 Native American languages remain. In 2020, there were only 230 native Dakota and Lakota speakers on the Standing Rock Reservation. Their average age is 70.
Elders and those who are fluent Native language speakers are being prioritized for vaccinations, but many say we are running out of time. What’s being done to preserve and revitalize these languages?
Guests:
Dr. Neyooxet Greymorning, political anthropologist, professor in the Departments of Anthropology and Native American Studies at the University of Montana, developer of the Accelerated Second Language Acquisition, and editor of
He led efforts to bring about change for his people. 12:14 pm, Jan. 24, 2021 ×
North Dakota lost a good leader in 2020 upon the death of Jesse Taken Alive.
I am writing this on Martin Luther King Day and contemplating what good leadership is all about. Out of the downward vortex of mistreatment, broken promises, darkness, anger and hurt on the Standing Rock Reservation, Jesse Taken Alive emerged as a strong and gentle leader. He led peaceful but relentless efforts to bring about change for his people. The person I came to know as Jay carried deep in his heart his Sioux heritage and culture and worked hard to better the lives of those who chose him to lead.
How Covid-19 Threatens Native Languages
The average age of Lakota and Dakota speakers is 70. We are running out of time to save them.
By Jodi Archambault
Ms. Archambault is a Hunkpapa and Oglala Lakota woman and former special assistant to the president for Native American affairs under President Barack Obama.
Jan. 24, 2021
The husband and wife Jesse (Jay) and Cheryl Taken Alive were buried at a family plot south of Cannon Ball, N.D., overlooking the Missouri River.Credit.Richard Tsong-Taatarii/Star Tribune, via Getty Images
CANNONBALL, N.D.
Over four centuries, nine out of 10 Native Americans perished from war or disease. Now our people are dying from Covid-19 at extraordinarily high rates across the country. North and South Dakota, home to the Lakota reservations, lead the United States for coronavirus rates per capita. We are losing more than friends and family members; we are losing the language spoken by our elders, the lifeblood of our people and the very essence of wh
Jesse Taken Alive: In Loving Memory
Ed Schafer
North Dakota lost a good leader in 2020 upon the death of Jesse Taken Alive.
I [wrote] this on Martin Luther King Day and [contemplated] what good leadership is all about. Out of the downward vortex of mistreatment, broken promises, darkness, anger and hurt on the Standing Rock Reservation, Jesse Taken Alive emerged as a strong and gentle leader. He led peaceful but relentless efforts to bring about change for his people. The person I came to know as Jay carried deep in his heart his Sioux heritage and culture and worked hard to better the lives of those who chose him to lead.