Expanding its investment in translating the Book of Common Prayer into indigenous languages, the Episcopal Church has given the Diocese of South Dakota a grant to pay for a new Lakota translation.
A year ago a similar grant was awarded to the Diocese of Alaska in support of a translation of the prayer book into Gwich’in, the language of many Native Alaskans.
By adding to those existing resources, the Episcopal Church has an additional purpose in mind: to help preserve Native languages that are at risk of being lost at a time when many younger Native Americans are learning English as their first language.
