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CDs, books help preserve Lakota language in schools

| Wednesday, November 02, 2005

PINE RIDGE — Nine schools on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation recently received sets of Lakota bilingual CDs and books for students to learn and preserve their Lakota language.

Nancy Cayford, founder of Friends of the Oglala Lakota, a New Hampshire organization, received a grant from the Bitty Foundation to begin the bilingual recording and book project about two years ago.

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The series promotes Lakota language among American Indian children through reading.

Andrew Standing Soldier illustrated the series, and Emil Afraid of Hawk translated the work.

Friends of the Oglala Lakota had six of the books recorded by Gerald Yellow Hawk of Black Hawk and Dolly Red Elk and Jessica Cretien, both of Rapid City. Cayford, who read some bilingual children’s books written in the 1940s by Bureau of Indian Affairs teacher Ann Clark, plans to record another Lakota book.

For information, call 1-603-563-8021 or visit www.lakotafriends.org.

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