PIERRE, S.D.—”Muskrat and Skunk/Sinkpe na Maka,” a bilingual Lakota-English illustrated children’s book published by the South Dakota Historical Society Press, has been selected as one of six BookMark Initiative recommended books by the South Dakota Office of Indian Education. The BookMark Initiative is funded by the Bush Foundation through the W.okiye Project. The six selected books for this first round of the Book- Mark Initiative are intended to facilitate the incorporation of the Oceti Sakowin Essential Understandings within the classroom by providing South Dakota public, private, tribal, and BIE schools with an opportunity to receive free culturally relevant books and...

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