As the need to pass on Indigenous languages grows more dire each year, tribes are teaming up with colleges to revitalize “sleeping” tongues.

Natives across South Dakota will come to Sioux Falls to celebrate the comeback of the Native American Day Parade, two years after COVID put the event on hiatus.

Native American Day was a day off of school for many students, but some took the day to celebrate their culture and identity with school groups.

After two years of absence, the Native American Day parade is returning to the streets of Sioux Falls this October.

Native American Day was a day off of school for many students, but some took the day to celebrate their culture and identity with school groups.

MARTIN: Chief, in 2010, the National Congress of American Indians declared that, in essence, this is an emergency. They estimated that by 2050, only 20 Native languages will still be spoken.

It’s a perilous reality for the Santee and other tribes. “Without our language, we die as a people,” said Redwing Thomas, the tribe’s cultural officer and leader of the language program.

The Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe filed two motions in a federal district court. — -- A Native American tribe has filed the first legal challenge to block the nearly finished Dakota Access ...