Native Americans performing ritual Ghost Dance. One standing woman is wearing a white dress, a special costume for the ritual dance, 1890. Photo by James Mooney, an ethnologist with US Dept. of ...
Lakota, a Siouan language, currently holds an EGIDS level of 6b (threatened). Interestingly enough, Lakota is very well documented but is still losing speakers. The number of first language Lakota ...
Indigenous women at a solidarity rally with the Dakota Access Pipeline protesters. (Shutterstock) Hämäläinen addresses the Lakota as a sovereign nation, like Mexico or France, just as responsive to ...