Berenstain Bears in Lakota

A new children's cartoon series, featuring the Berenstain Bears is to be aired in Lakota , called "Matho Waunsila Thiwahe" or "Compassionate Bear Family".

I first saw this article in the Dickinson Press in early August, but I've been waiting for it to break on a less local news source, and also to come to a site without a paywall. Four days ago, AP published the story, and as such has now spread to Time and CBS

FastCompany reports on LiveAndTell

LiveAndTell, A Crowdsourced Quest To Save Native American Languages

FastCompany reports on the LiveAndTell Project. Originally set up "as an efficient, easy-to-use way to pass the Lakota Sioux language (and others) from older generations to younger ones", with a goal of "just lowering the barriers and the costs for everybody"; and described in the article as " an attempt to preserve endangered indigenous dialects such as Lakota and Ho Chunk"

The author comments that although there is plenty of learning material available in Spanish, French or German, "For Native American languages, there's a scarcity of learning materials,”. The article contrasts the organic, crowdsourcing nature of LiveAndTell with the scientific approach of Rosetta Stone.


Other projects mentioned in the article:

• Livemocha
• Rosetta Project
• Rosetta Stone Endangered Langueages Project