Mr_Frieze

What music did your parents listen to in the car?

If only it were that easy...

It's very very hard to learn enough of an indigenous language to preserve it if you're an adult monolingual English speaker, regardless of ancestry. You need a tight knit community who really commits to preserving it, preferably with the help of a government..

Just check out some useful Lak'ota phrases: http://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/lakota.php

Sure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7OvPTmhtiY