Internal documents describe the turmoil at Lakota Language Consortium and Language Conservancy
By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, April 5, 2024
Language carries the stories, culture and the sacred. "If I were to speak the true Lakota language, you would not be able to translate it," Delores Taken Alive said before her passing.
Now the question is whether sacred language can be owned, whether sacred language can be put in a box and sold.
The internal documents of two non-profits, the Lakota Language Consortium, and Language Conservancy, reveal the turmoil and financial collapse of the non-profits which were operated by two non-Indians from Austria and the Czech Republic. The executive director of Lakota Language Consortium, who also served as CEO of the Language Conservancy, was recently replaced.
