Wóoyake Project

140 year old instructions (in Lakota) for building a rib bone sled: wooya.ke/sled

📷 Tobogganing with tȟakóža, London, 1926.

TURKEY STUFFED WITH CHESTNUTS, by Tȟašúŋke Óta

1. Wíčheuŋpe én úma dé akénuŋpa yámni ohnákapi kʼa špaŋyáŋpi kte. Put three dozen chestnuts in a pan, and bake in the oven.

2. [View full Dakota recipe at wooya.ke/trky, or this week's Teton Times]

What if we measured wealth not by money but by kindness?
"The Poor Man's Friend," a story in Dakota.

Available from today on Wóoyake: wooya.ke/r2rs

Nominations for the 2026 DELAMAN Award are now being accepted! This award honors early-career documenters who have done outstanding work in creating and archiving a multimedia documentary collection of a language that is endangered or no longer spoken. More here: www.delaman.org/delaman-award/

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Episode 2 of KLND Radio's new language show, Ečhéȟčiŋ Lakȟól’iyapi, is AVAILABLE NOW to listen again: wooya.ke/EL02

Join Bryan Swift Cloud and special guests Richard Long Feather for two hours of uplifting conversation, laughter, and Lakota language brilliance!

📷 Spotted Crow and others outside the White House for Hoover's inauguration.

We found a letter, in Dakota, from one of the boycotters - check it out on Wóoyake: wooya.ke/d2dW. And maybe someone can adapt it for today's drama lol 2/2

Apparently the Lakota were part of Inauguration Day in 1929. Incoming president Hoover had asked for tribes to join the parade - but not everyone was on board. The Santees refused, as did the Nez Perce, calling it "undignified for them to dress up in feather and parade for anybody." 1/2

Came across this from a Fort Peck speaker: “Nakúŋ tȟaspáŋ waŋžígži él otkéyapi čhaŋké wakȟáŋyeža kʼuŋ ȟmú sʼeléčheča.” Source: wooya.ke/ihDN

Who remembers apples in the Christmas tree? Anyone still do that? 🎄

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Check out the sentence before it too. I’m struggling with the translation. But some cool words in there like akám’iyaye (leftovers)

“Tȟokátakiya wakȟáŋyeža ičháǧapi kiŋ hé tȟáwawičhauŋkhiyapi ~ We are passing this on to the children of the future.”

From Roan Bear's report on a gathering to fight the Black Hills Act, 121 years ago today: wooya.ke/QzFb

#OnThisDay #BlackHillsAreNotForSale #LandBack #LanguageBack