On Tuesday, May 12, Native language teachers from across the country will gather at the second annual National Native Language Revitalization Summit in Washington, D.C. Benson is scheduled to offer ...

FARGO - Edwin Benson stumbles through a few false starts before he catches his rhythm telling an old story about how a coyote turned into a buffalo. He sits on a stool draped with a woolly buffalo ...

TWIN BUTTES, N.D. (AP) - An effort to save the Mandan language may rest on the shoulders of a 75-year-old horse rancher. Experts believe Edwin Benson is the only person living who speaks fluent Mandan ...

TWIN BUTTES, N.D. — An 85-year-old man said to be the last fluent speaker of the Mandan language has died. Edwin Benson was remembered this week with a traditional wake. His death brings the possible ...

The Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara languages are taught at Fort Berthold Community College, which was awarded a one-year National Science Foundation grant to document the Mandan language.