2012 OSEU Document
2018 OSEU Document (Revised)
2024 OSEU Document

Language Loss

Lydia Whirlwind Soldier
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Learn ABOUT
(deep listening, information)

  1. In what ways are the Lakota people losing their language?
  2. In what ways are culture and language tied together?
  3. What role did boarding schools play in assimilation of the Lakota people?
  4. What are some difficulties in learning the Lakota language?
  5. Why would it be important to no just preserve one language such as Lakota? Why is it also important to preserve Dakota and Nakota?

Learn FROM
(deep listening, information)

  1. Do I know other languages besides the one I speak most often? How does the knowledge of another language affect my perception of the world?
  2. Is a language besides English spoken in my home? How does hearing and speaking another language with my family impact me?
  3. Are there languages spoken in my family that I haven’t learned? What does that feel like?