Minnesota Indigenous Language Symposium will be held May 18-19th at the Northland Inn, Brooklyn Park, MN. For more information about the Symposium contact Jennifer Niemi of the University of Minnesota at 218-726-8419 or visit the symposium website.

Among the featured presentation will be the New Lakota-Dakota Dictionary, recently completed by the Lakota Language Consortium, the dictionary contains more than 20,000 words. Read more about it here. The Lakota Language Consortium website also provides a detailed look at indigenous language loss in the United States and the status of the Lakota language in particular, as well as strategies for language revitalization.