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Lakota Stories for Children

Prairie Dog Goes To School, The Lakota Language Consortium and Delores Taken Alive

Prairie Dog Goes to School is a fun bilingual picture book designed for early elementary and preschool children. It tells the story of a prairie dog on his way to school. Along the way, he meets different animals and they join him. Children learn basic verbs of travel, sentence structure, animals, and numbers.

Lakota Way for Children, SD Nelson

"I remember one particular summer night… cricket song filled my ears. Then, shimmering overhead, the Northern Lights came dancing, pale green at first, then in ethereal robes of red and gold; spiraling ever upward; colors vanishing, only to reappear. Although I was staring directly into the heavens, from the corner of my eye, I saw something—the sacred something that Lakota People believe is behind all things. I was only a boy, but I was seeing in a Wakan manner, in a sacred way."