The Dakota Language

With funding provided by a Minnesota Art and Cultural Heritage Grant (administered by the Minnesota Indian Affairs Council), Metropolitan State University...

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Where to Start

There are seven basic verb conjugations. Conjugations indicate the doer of each action. For example, "Ti" is he/she lives. “Ti” is the root verb and first...

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Dialect

Dialects separate some tribes from the others. Some use "D" while others use "L." Still, others use "N." For example, "Pidamaye," which is "thank you," can...

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The Seven Council Fires

As stated in Riggs’ A Dakota-English Dictionary, the Dakota Tribes are a confederacy made up of the Seven Council Fires: Wahpkute...

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Fonts and Markings

Dakota characters cannot be seen by every web browser...

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