Dakota Midday: Rising Voices

Lawrence Hott, director of “Rising Voices,” joins Dakota Midday to discuss the film.  SDPB-TV airs “Rising Voices” Monday, November 16 at 9:00 p.m. Central, with a repeat on Sunday, November 22 at 2:00 p.m. Central. "Rising Voices" looks at how Native Americans may be facing a permanent silence — the extinction of their languages.  But the Lakota “Sioux” of the Great Plains have chosen a different path: teach the language, bring the words forward, out of the silence of cultural assimilation. Classroom instruction and immersion preschools, dictionaries and animated cartoons are their 21st century language-revival tools.