Twenty episodes of
Berenstain Bears cartoons will soon air on South Dakota Public Television -- in the Lakota language. The
Associated Press is reporting today (Aug. 30) that the shows begin running this fall. The AP says it's the first time in the United States that a cartoon series has been translated to a Native language and widely distributed, according to Wilhelm Meya, executive director of
Lakota Language Consortium, a nonprofit that partnered with the
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe to co-produce the Lakota version of the series. (
Click here to hear numbers spoken in the Lakota language.)
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