The Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate Dakotah Language Institute is a program of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate (SWO) a 14,000 member tribe of Dakota (formerly known worldwide as the “Sioux”). The people of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate inhabit the Lake Traverse Reservation located primarily in Northeast South Dakota and into Southeast North Dakota. The institute has a sole focus of the revitalization and preservation of our heritage language, Dakotah.
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