Editing Lakota language (section)

==History and origin==
The [[Lakota people]]'s creation stories say that language originated from the creation of the tribe.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Sneve |first1=Paul |year=2013 |title=Anamnesis in the Lakota Language and Lakota Concepts of Time and Matter |journal=Anglican Theological Review |volume=95 |issue=3 |pages=487–493 }}</ref><ref name="Andrews">{{cite journal |last1=Andrews |first1=Thomas G |year=2002 |title=Turning the Tables on Assimilation: Oglala Lakotas and the Pine Ridge Day Schools 1889–1920s |journal=Western Historical Quarterly |volume=33 |issue=4 |pages=407–430 |doi=10.2307/4144766 |jstor=4144766 }}</ref> Other creation stories say language was invented by [[Iktomi]].<ref name="Walker DeMallie Jahner 1980 p.106">{{cite book | last1=Walker | first1=J.R. | last2=DeMallie | first2=R.J. | last3=Jahner | first3=E. | title=Lakota Belief and Ritual | publisher=U of Nebraska Press | series=Bison books | year=1980 | isbn=978-0-8032-9867-5 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PYwV956P_UgC | access-date=December 18, 2021 | page=106}}</ref>

A wholly Lakota newspaper named the ''Anpao Kin'' ("Daybreak") circulated from 1878 by the Protestant Episcopal Church in [[Niobrara, Nebraska|Niobrara Mission]], Nebraska until its move to [[Mission, South Dakota]] in 1908 continuing until its closure in 1937. The print alongside its [[Dakota language|Dakota]] counterpart ''Iapi Oaye'' ("The Word Carrier") played an important role in documenting the enlistment and affairs including obituaries of Native [[Sioux]] soldiers into the army as America became [[American entry into World War I|involved in World War I]].<ref>{{cite thesis |last= Little |first=John A. |date=May 2020 |title=Vietnam Akíčita: Lakota and Dakota Military Tradition in the Twentieth Century |degree=PhD |publisher=University of Minnesota |url=https://conservancy.umn.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/5361ba2e-4da0-45d3-98b3-73a51c456125/content|pages=58-64}}</ref>