Lakota elders helped a white man preserve their language. Then he tried to sell it back to them.

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Lakota elders helped a white man preserve their language. Then he tried to sell it back to them.

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“No matter how it was collected, where it was collected, when it was collected, our language belongs to us," said Ray Taken Alive, a Lakota teacher.

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