Fight to save indigenous languages topic of summit

Published November 15, 2012 10:20pm ET



SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The founder of a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting the Lakota language says the alcoholism, high suicide rates and rampant drug use plaguing young people on South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Indian Reservation stem from a lack of identity and a loss of culture.

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