The NDSU programs in anthropology and Tribal and Indigenous Peoples Studies, along with the Lakota Language Consortium, are organizing a special event about the preservation of the Lakota language.

A screening of the documentary film “Rising Voices: Hótȟaŋiŋpi” is scheduled for Tuesday, March 6, at 6 p.m. at Zandbroz Variety in downtown Fargo. The film presentation will be followed by a question and answer session with Alex Fire Thunder Loeb, Lakota language and culture program coordinator at the Lakota Waldorf School in Kyle, South Dakota.

The documentary was produced by Florentine Films/Hott Productions, in association with The Language Conservancy. Five years in the making, the multi-platform project tells the story of a threat to a Native culture – the near extinction of its language.

Fire Thunder Loeb is an instructor with the Lakota Language Consortium for its popular “Lakota Language Weekends” program, bringing Lakota to introductory-level students in cities across the United States, including Denver, Sioux Falls and New York. He is studying for his master’s degree in Lakota leadership and management at Oglala Lakota College.

Sponsors include the North Dakota Humanities Council; NDSU College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences; and Zandbroz Variety.

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