Alva Review-Courier -

PAWHUSKA, Okla. (AP) - Mogri Lookout had been studying the Osage language for three decades when, in 2004, he was asked to lead the tribe's efforts to preserve it.

"It was what I considered to be a dying language back then," he said.

But interest in the Osage language - like the Osage people - now stretches far beyond the tribe's reservation in northern Oklahoma to Florida, California, Washington and across the Atlantic Ocean to Britain. Lookout knew he needed a way to teach Osage members their native tongue from a distance.

"Not everyone and their mom is going to come to Pawhuska, Oklahoma,"...