http://www.newsvine.com/mama-bearNewsvine - mama-bearen-usCopyright 2013Wed, 14 Sep 2011 07:46:05 +0000Thu, 23 May 2013 08:28:29 +0000http://www.newsvine.comhttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/09/14/7754170-berenstain-bears-now-speaking-endangered-languagehttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/09/14/7754170-berenstain-bears-now-speaking-endangered-languageusbearsamerican-indianus-newssiouxmama-bearberenstain-bearsWed, 14 Sep 2011 07:30:45 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post<p>In this Friday, Sept. 9, 2011, photo Papa Bear and Mama Bear of the Berenstain Bears wave to children at the United Tribes International Powwow in Bismarck, N.D. Twenty episodes of the beloved bruins’ animated series have been translated into Lakota to help revive the endangered Sioux language. (AP Photo/James MacPherson)</p><p>In this Friday, Sept. 9, 2011, photo Kenny  Little Thunder and his wife,  Bernadine,  pose at the at the United Tribes International Powwow in Bismarck, N.D. The Little Thunders, of the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation in South Dakota, provided voices for several of the characters in the Lakota language-dubbed Berenstain Bears animated series. The couple said most of the children from their generation were punished for speaking their native language at school. (AP Photo/James MacPherson)</p>