From http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2011/02/berenstain-bears-to-speak-lakota
Berenstain Bears to Speak Lakota
By ICTMN Staff
February 24, 2011
Restoring Native languages is essential to the preservation of Native culture, and there are many groups doing their part to restore the languages that began disappearing after colonization.
The Lakota Language Consortium (LLC) is one of those groups. In June 2010, the consortium decided to dub 20 episodes of the Berenstain Bears, or Matȟó Waúŋšila Thiwáhe—The Compassionate (Generous, Kind) Bear Family—into Lakota. According to the LLC website, this project will further one of its vision statements to “provide every Lakota child with the means to become a speaker of Lakota as a first language within the home.”
Read the full article at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2011/02/berenstain-bears-to-speak-lakota
March 6, 2011
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