Revisiting the fight over the Lakota language as Trump targets “divisive narratives”

As the Trump administration targets the Smithsonian Institute for “divisive narratives” and “improper ideology,” it got us thinking about how we preserve our history and everything that builds it, like language. So we’re revisiting an episode from last year from the Lakota Nation in South Dakota over language — who preserves it, who has the right to the stories told in it, and who (literally) owns it.

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