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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