Reading and Writing the Lakota Language leadership As the traditional teachers and

As the traditional teachers and bearers of culture

the snow blowing through his roof

Through the fog of pain

the Osage began to be killed off

Wingerd charts how for two centuries prior to official statehood Native people and Europeans in the region maintained a hesitant

Reading and Writing the Lakota Language leadership As the traditional teachers andLakota Iyapi Un Wowapi Nahan Yawapi. Based on extensive research and pedagogy on the Rosebud Reservation, this elementary grammar of Lakota, one of the three languages spoken by the Sioux nation, is the first written by a native Lakota speaker. It presents the Sicangu dialect using an orthography developed by Lakota in 1982 and which is now supplanting older systems provided by linguists and missionaries. This new approach represents a powerful act of