An instructor at United Tribes Technical College is teaching students the Hidatsa language as part of an effort to help ...

The Hidatsa language is in a state of emergency. Only an estimated 65 people speak it fluently. But one instructor at United Tribes Technical College is working to change that and save her native ...

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, ...

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 ...