Arikara vs Hoit'e Woiperes

The Arikara Cultural Center aims to preserve, promote and maintain Arikara culture. By creating, developing and making available to the Arikara people dynamic activities that are imbued with Arikara culture. Additionally, the Arikara Cultural Center will reinforce and support existing cultural domains. The Arikara Cultural Center hopes to increase knowledge, spur learning and reinvigorate the Arikara people’s cultural connection. Arikara Cultural Center asked Thornton Media, Inc. to release the “Arikara Language App.” This free app consists of 19 useful categories, 3 games, 3 quizzes, culture notes and much more! We hope you will enjoy using this app to learn the Arikara language. Thank you!

Hoit'e Woiperes, which translates to “Knower of the Language” in Hoocąk, is an online language learning portal devoted entirely to the Hoocąk language. Hoit'e Woiperes provides Hoocąk speaking and learning communities with a powerful tool for revitalizing and learning the Hoocąk language. Hoit'e Woiperes was envisioned as a way for all interested Hoocąk learners to learn the vocabulary and fundamental sentence construction as an important supplement to conventional language education. Based on leading online language learning practices, Hoit'e Woiperes gives learners the power to bring language learning anywhere they go. At its core, Hoit'e Woiperes reshapes the possibilities for indigenous language learning and revitalization. By pairing the historic Hoocąk language with the most current, effective, adaptive, and accessible learning technologies available, Hoit'e Woiperes will give thousands of Hoocąk a way to learn their ancestral language. Hoit'e Woiperes offers interactive learning units that incorporate reading, writing, and eventually speaking systems; and standard achievement tracking, gamification, and rewards. Hoit'e Woiperes not only helps individual users improve their language skills, it brings the language to life in daily lessons, builds community language capacity, and shows that Hoocąk can be learned with regular practice and use.