Single page of handwritten Hidatsa linguistic notes from Truman Michelson's research on Algonquian languages at Carlisle Indian Industrial School. These brief notes, which include Hidatsa terms used ...

MANDAREE (AP) - Alex Gwin stands behind the lectern and asks his high school students what sounds like a disarmingly simple question: "What day of the week is it?" But he asks the question in Hidatsa, ...

Immersion is the surest way a person can learn a language with any fluency. To do that effectively without becoming engulfed by English, a teaching environment must set itself apart as a linguistic ...

Tribes with an oral tradition like the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara are vulnerable to losing keystone cultural stories. The danger is that when a storyteller dies without leaving a written legacy, the ...