Nishnaabemdaa vs Owóksape

Nishnaabemdaa, takes you to the fun world of understandable Nishnaabe-language. We’ve carefully designed and produced immersion-style that you’ll be able to understand the general meaning of the words. Barbara Nolan is grateful to have survived the attempts by Canada’s Indian residential schools system to take her Nishnaabe language from her. As a vibrant first-speaker of Nishnaabemwin, Barbara has spent several decades working with a variety of organizations to revitalize our language. Her most recent ten years have been particularly exciting for her. Partnering with John Paul Montano as his mentor, one of her biggest dreams has come true: Barbara’s language has been successfully passed on to the next generation! She is so very thankful that John Paul is now a speaker of the Nishnaabe language.

Owóksape is a fun new learning platform for the Lakota language. We focus on providing quality curriculum developed with fluent native speakers and language learning experts. Learn Lakota the easy and friendly way with Owóksape! Earn points by completing lessons and exercises providing practice listening, reading, writing and speaking Lakota. Advance to later units, providing extensive knowledge of Lakota grammar and sentence patterns. You can learn Lakota one day at a time! Keep your Lakota learning fire strong and bright by selecting a learning pace and sticking to it with daily lessons, exercises, and review that will increase your Lakota proficiency. New curriculum is regularly added to continue advancing our growing community of learners. Learn together and learn better! You can Find New Friends, Discuss Lakota Learning Topics in the Owóksape Village Forum with other students. Post your own new topic or reply to others post, Gain Points, and get Awarded with Badges to show off to your family and friends. Invite more friends by connecting with your social networks such as Facebook and Google. Work hard and reach the Top Learners list competing with the whole community or just your friends. Review specific units and topics or allow Owóksape to create a review deck specifically designed to help you achieve. Learning Lakota becomes simple and effortless with Owóksape! Owóksape is made possible by the generous support from the Administration for Native Americans, Lush Cosmetics, the South Dakota Community Foundation, San Manuel Band of Mission Indians, and the Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company Foundation.