Lakota (incl. Dakota)

• A variety of books and tapes on the Lakhota dialect of Dakota are available from the Colorado University Lakhota Project. These include: Beginning Lakhota I (337 pp.), $25; Beginning Lakhota II (331 pp.), $25; Vols I and II together, $40. Elementary Bilingual Dictionary: English-Lakhota, Lakhota-English (317 pp.), $20. Lakhota Wayawapi, Graded Readings (134 pp.), $15. Tapes to accompany Beginning Lakhota I (6 tapes, about 1 hr. each), $15. (Note that tapes are for the previous edition of the lessons and do not match the present edition exactly. They are, however, thoroughly usable.) Complete set of books and tapes: $90. - Order from: Colorado University Lakhota Project, Dept. of Linguistics, Campus Box 2959, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309. Prices are in US dollars. Make checks payable to "The University of Colorado." There is a $5 shipping/handling charge on every order from an individual. Institutions using purchase orders will be billed for postage and handling; individuals must prepay. Note: If you buy these through a bookstore the prices may be somewhat higher. [Updated Nov. 1996]
  
• The bookstore of Sinte Gleska College (on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation) sells a wide range of books, tapes, and other materials on Lakota culture and language. Their 1990 catalogue lists, among other items, an Everyday Lakota Dictionary ($5) and accompanying tape ($4.25); Lakota Language Cassette Tapes (15 lessons, $50) and accompanying books ($11.47); and a Lakota Ceremonial Song Tape Set ($15). Classics like the Boas/Deloria Dakota Texts are also available. For an order form, write: Sinte Gleska College Bookstore, P.O. Box 8, Hwy 18, Mission, SD 57555. [Oct. 1990]
  
  
• Here's some information on ordering Father Buechel's Lakota Dictionary, always a popular query. The full citation is: Buechel, Rev. Eugene, S.J. (compiler), A Dictionary - Oie Wowapi Wan - of Teton Sioux; Lakota-English : English-Lakota; Lakota-Ieska : Ieska-Lakota (with consideration given to Yankton and Santee dialects), edited by the Rev. Paul Manhart, S.J. Pine Ridge, SD: Red Cloud Indian School, Inc., Holy Rosary Mission, 1983. The address to order from is: Buechel Memorial Lakota Museum, 350 So. Oak St., PO Box 149, St. Francis, SD 57572. Price: $19.00. [This information is from John Koontz, who adds: "In spite of various faults, this is the best and largest dictionary of a Siouan language, and quite useful."] [Jan. 1992]
  
  
• For a Lakhota bibliography, see Willem J. de Reuse, "One Hundred Years of Lakota Linguistics (1887-1987)", Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics 12:13-42 (1987); and "A Supplementary Bibliography of Lakota Language and Linguistics (1887-1990)", Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics 15.2:146-165 (1990). Copies of KWPL can be ordered from: Graduate Students Association, Dept. of Linguistics, Univ. of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045. [July 1992]
  
  
• Audio-Forum (96 Broad St., Guilford, CT 06437; 1-800-243-1234) offers: Introductory Lakota, a course developed at Oglala Lakota College, Rosebud Reservation, South Dakota. 15 1-hour cassette lessons, with accompanying 102 pp. text, and 9 pp. final test. $175. [Order # AFLK10]. Also Live and Remember, video (bilingual English-Lakota) examining the role and sacred nature of dance, music, and oral tradition in Lakota culture [1 VHS cassette, 29 min., color, 1986). $49.50. [Order # V72299]. [ Jan. 1993]
  
  
• SSILA member Charles Thode, who teaches Dakota at the Univ. of Minnesota, has self-published a collection of 16 Dakota stories, Dakota Woyakapi I, for intermediate and advanced students of the language. All the texts are in Dakota and there is a full Dakota-English glossary at the end. The stories are beautifully illustrated with line drawings. Copies are available for $6.50 plus $2 postage from Thode at: 308 4th Ave. SE, Minneapolis, MN, 55414 (e-mail: thod0001@gold.tc.umn. edu). [April 1995]
  
  
• Santee (one of the d-dialects of Dakota) is spoken on or near the Santee Reservation in NE Nebraska. A cassette tape of Santee Dakota is available, prepared by Agnes Ross in 1983 and titled Dakota Language (FC-3001-C). It contains an English introduction, followed by words and phrases in a learning format: English, Dakota spoken slowly, and Dakota spoken rapidly. --- Order from: Featherstone, 400 N. Hiawatha, PO Box 13, Pipestone, Minnesota 56164. [Sept. 1988]
  
  
• Calvin Fast Wolf, a Lakota from Pine Ridge, has been teaching his native language for a number of years. Most recently he has taught at Stanford, offering regular courses in Lakota under the sponsorship of the Linguistics department, and in Paris, where in 1994 he offered two 2-week intensive courses. The Paris courses were sponsored by Association Nadove is-iw, which also offers other Lakota-related courses and activities (write: Bruno Lopez, 17 rue Desnouettes, F-75015 Paris). Students interested in getting in direct touch with Mr. Fast Wolf can reach him at 1446 9th Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94122. [July 1995]

See also: Assiniboine (Nakota)