“The Dakota language is sacred. When something is sacred, it cannot die.”
about the importance of protecting Indigenous mother tongues, and how Dakota is connected to health, climate change, and tribal sovereignty.Can you tell us about yourself and how you began to learn Dakota?I'm going to tell the story of my birth in my language, and after that I will translate it:
They had me around 19 years ago. When I was born, I hadn't cried. As my mother grabbed hold of me, I let out a single war whoop, and so they named me Akiš’a, meaning “war whoop” or “war cry.”
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