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Preserve Native Language Program

In July 2017, the Margaret Byrd Rawson Institute, in partnership with the Thunder Valley Community Development Corporation’s Lakota Language Immersion Program, provided a free five-day Orton Gillingham teacher training at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.

The Orton-Gillingham approach to language acquisition has deep historical roots. It was developed in part by Anna Gillingham, an educator who grew up on the Pine Ridge Reservation in the late 1800s, working with Dr. Samuel Orton, a renowned neurologist. This Preserve Native Language Program is MBRI’s way of giving back to the people and community that influenced Anna Gillingham and helped to shape the multisensory teaching techniques assisting countless children today.

The Margaret Byrd Rawson Institute is grateful to be able to offer scholarship assistance to Native American and Indigenous communities focused on preserving their traditional language and cultural identity. We welcome an opportunity to provide best-practice foundational language instruction for any language and community we come to serve.
Don’t hesitate to get in touch with us for additional information.

Our visit to the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota

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You can find more information about this unique Lakota Language, Immersion program here.
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….I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches, but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.

~Red Cloud (Makhpiya-luta)