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Hiŋháŋ Sná Wíŋ (September 29, 1933 - August 29, 2020), also known as Delores Taken Alive, was a Lakota educator, radio host, and language specialist.

In 2023, Taken Alive was posthumously awarded the Kenneth L. Hale Award by the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA).^[1]

Biography

Taken Alive was born on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, the descendant of survivors of the Wounded Knee Massacre.^[2]^[3] She began working at a Head Start program in Little Eagle, South Dakota where she worked for thirty years before she began teaching the Lakota language at McLaughlin High School.

Lakota language revitalization work

As the number of first-language Lakota speaker dwindled, Taken Alive began working with Czech linguist Jan Ullrich [cs] in 2005.^[3] Ulrich and Wilhelm Meya formed the Lakota Language Consortium (LLC), originally focusing on Lakota, but later expanding to include other vulnerable and endangered Native American languages, including Ojibwe, Crow, and Gwichʼin.^[4] She recorded both words and stories for the Lakota Language Consortium's dictionary, as well as reviewing new entries, as part of a program between LLC and Lakota elders that paid speakers up to $50 per hour, in exchange for exclusive publication rights.^[3]^[5]

She also taught weekly classes at Sitting Bull College from 2017 to 2018; recordings of both her classes and the 48 episodes of her weekly radio show, It’s Good to Speak Lakota, have provided hundreds of hours of fluent Lakota speech.^[1] The recorded collection is the largest of its kind in the Lakota language resources corpus at Standing Rock Indian Reservation.^[1]

Delores Taken Alive died from COVID-19 in 2020 at age 86.^[3]^[6] She was one of at least three Lakota language revitalization instructors from Sitting Bull College, including Paulette High Elk and Richard Ramsey, to die of COVID-19 in 2020.^[7]

Copyright lawsuit

Taken Alive's grandson, Eugene "Ray" Taken Alive, who is also a Lakota language instructor, has been involved in litigation against LLC since the death of his grandmother.^[3]^[4] After requesting recordings of Delores Taken Alive, he learned that the organization retained "unrestricted permission to copyright" and publish, according to the agreement signed by Taken Alive in 2005.^[3] LLC filed a lawsuit against Ray Taken Alive for copyright infringement. In May 2023, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe voted to ban the consortium's representatives from the reservation.^[8]

The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe is readying a suit against Lakota Language Consortium to gain ownership of recordings.^[4]^[9]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Delores Taken Alive Awarded SSILA Ken Hale Prize". SSILA. 2023-03-13. Retrieved 2024-07-18.
^ Parker, B.A. (27 March 2024). "In Lakota Nation, people are asking: Who does a language belong to?". NPR. Retrieved 18 July 2024.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Lakota elders helped a white man preserve their language. Then he tried to sell it back to them". NBC News. 2022-06-03. Retrieved 2024-07-18.
^ ^a ^b ^c Schafer, Amelia (2024-12-10). "Standing Rock to sue to gain Lakota language materials". ICT News. Retrieved 2024-12-19.
^ "Lakota elders helped a white man preserve their language. Then he tried to sell it back to them". NBC News. 2022-06-03. Retrieved 2025-01-15.
^ "Cheryl Taken Alive and Jesse "Jay" Taken Alive". Timber Lake Topic. 2020-12-23. Retrieved 2025-01-15.
^ Archambault, Jodi (2021-01-24). "Opinion | How Covid-19 Threatens Native Languages". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-07-18.
^ Abourezk, Kevin (2023-07-21). "Nicole Ducheneaux, Native rights champion, legal 'warrior' dies". ICT News. Retrieved 2024-07-18.
^ staff, Amelia Schafer Journal (2024-12-05). "Standing Rock Sioux Tribe prepares to sue Lakota Language Consortium". Rapid City Journal. Retrieved 2025-01-15.

External links

"OSEU Three: Delores Taken Alive- Story of Audrey (in Lakota and English)". wolakotaproject.org. 2015-06-03. Archived from the original on 2024-07-18. Retrieved 2025-01-15.
"Delores Taken Alive = Wo Lakota". YouTube. 2024-03-06. Retrieved 2025-01-15.

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