Icepansiunkiciyapi: Winuna Se Establishing Women-led Dakota Language Domains
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2023-05
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Ohinni Dakota iapi. Wanna anpetu iyohi Dakota iapi kin wounhdakapi uncinpi. This dissertation focuses on the strengths of Dakota womanhood as a catalyst for us to begin speaking the Dakota language across Dakota communities. Dakota Wowicohan the Dakota Way of Life and the seasons provide two critical approaches that frame and guide this research to establish a deeper context and understanding of the findings. Movement through time and space with this framework explores our relationship with the Dakota language since before contact and into the future. With intention, this story starts with the strengths of Dakota womanhood and Dakota identity in relation to creation, land, and kinship. An analysis of the colonization of the Dakota language and the experiences of Dakota women through historic and linguistic documents offers an understanding of how both shifted with colonization and assimilation. The strengths of Dakota womanhood and historic impacts are situated to offer context and lead into a broad description of Dakota language revitalization efforts, illuminating the complexities of this movement and an understanding of its current state and outcomes. This view of Dakota women’s strength and identity and the impact on those and the Dakota language over time situates this research in a position to design new approaches to not only Dakota language revitalization, but Dakota iapi kin wounhdakapi speaking the Dakota language. Utilizing the lessons of the past, Icepansiunkiciyapi Winuna Se is presented here as a method for learning and speaking the Dakota language through the strengths of Dakota womanhood. The implications of this research reveal systemic challenges, but also a pathway to Dakota iapi kin wounhdakapi kte to speak the Dakota language with each other.
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Language, Education, Native American studies, Dakota Education, Dakota Language, Indigenous Women's Empowerment, Indigenous Women's Leadership, Linguistics, Revitalization
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