TWIN BUTTES, N.D. -The death of Edwin Benson, of Twin Buttes on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in west-central North Dakota, who was the last living soul who could fluently speak Mandan could ...

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 hide across ...

NEW TOWN, N.D. -- At UND's 121st commencement ceremony on May 16, Edwin Benson, Mandan tribal elder, received an honorary doctor of letters degree. Benson will now be added to the list of recipients ...

TWIN BUTTES, N.D. -The death of Edwin Benson, of Twin Buttes on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in west-central North Dakota, who was the last living soul who could fluently speak Mandan could ...

TWIN BUTTES, N.D. (AP) - 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, The Bismarck Tribune ...

Edwin Benson will wear a cap and gown for the first time in his life since majoring in the language, customs and traditions of the Nu'eta, a knowledge base passed to him from elders who lived in the ...

"He never asked to be the teacher of the language; he was more called to be. He was a simple rancher at heart." — Three Affiliated Tribes Councilman Cory Spotted Bear, discussing Edwin Benson, the ...

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. — An 85-year-old man said to be the last fluent speaker of the Mandan language has died.

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.