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  • Nakota communities reclaim audio recordings housed at Indiana University

Nakota communities reclaim audio recordings housed at Indiana University

By: Louise BigEagle · CBC News

Monday, February 09, 2026

Nakota language teacher Kenneth Helgeson learned the language from his grandmother, listening as she spoke with other elders. From CBC News, Submitted by Kenneth Helgeson

Indiana University in Bloomington, Ind., is working with Nakota communities to return valuable cultural archives of recordings of their elders.

Kenneth Helgeson, a Nakota language teacher at the Hays Lodgepole School in Fort Belknap, Mont., said when he first became a teacher in 2003, elders at the school were working on translating stories and an online dictionary database from recordings at the university.

Read the full story on the CBC website

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