Some languages are said to be romance languages, others languages sound cold and harsh but the Lakota language is a language of the spirit. It is a language that reflects what is most important in life. Many of our values spoken in English seem to be only surface concepts that do not touch our hearts and spirits. This is so because our philosophy for life in ingrained in our language something that English cannot define.

Lydia Whirlwind Soldier, Columnist 28.DEC.07

• Calling any woman Squaw is an insult?
  

• Refusing food or drink from an American Indian can be an insult?
  

• The US Constitution was modeled after the Iroquois Confederacy?
  

• Many Tribes called this continent Turtle Island before the European arrived here?
  

• Sioux is French castration of an Ojibwa term?
  

• American Indians are the only race required to know their blood quantum?
  

• Most Educational Institutions teach very little if anything at all about the Original Peoples of this land?
  

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