Founded by survivors of the Battle of the Little Big Horn who fled the U.S., Wood Mountain, Sask., is the only Lakota community in Canada.
Lakota speaker Hartland Goodtrack, who resides with his wife on Standing Buffalo Dakota Nation.
Hartland Goodtrack's grandparents Tom and Susie Goodtrack, who raised him, pictured in a newspaper spread. Goodtrack said the RCMP wanted to send him to residential school, but his grandfather stood his ground and refused, so Goodtrack was able to retain his language, unlike others his age. Now he is one of its last remaining fluent speakers in Canada.
Goodtrack was able to retain the Lakota language for all these years, even after living in the modernized world, but he wishes he would have passed it on to his children.Hartland and Evelyn Goodtrack with their daughters Roberta, Pearl and Beckie. Luckily for Goodtrack, Lakota is mutually intelligible with the two dialects of the Dakota language and with Nakota, as all are languages of the Sioux family. So when he runs into a Dakota or Nakota speaker, they can understand each other.Also, each language differs slightly depending on whether a women or man is talking, but only a fluent speaker would know the difference.Goodtrack said he fears his language not being revived in Canada.
One of his daughters, Roberta Soo-Oyewaste, is taking online Dakota classes with the University of Minnesota. She said she is proud to be learning a language and hopes to learn enough to chat with her father, even though it is slightly different from the Lakota he speaks.
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