Albert White Hat
At a glance:
- Series: Magill's Choice: American Indian Biographies, Revised Edition
- Categories: Education, Language, Linguistics, Philology
- Subcategories: Teaching, Teachers, Native Americans, American Indians
- Curriculum: American History 1951-present, American Indian History
Article abstract: Albert White Hat, Sr., is a Lakota linguist, educator, and textbook author.
Albert White Hat was born in a small Lakota community on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation in South Dakota, where he grew up in two cultures. However, it was the more hidden Lakota world that would have the greatest impact on his life and thought. He has credited his mother, Emily Hollow Horn Bear White Hat , and his older brother, Isadore, with being his first Lakota language instructors. Through stories and personal example, they also taught him the philosophy and values...
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