Politics & Government
Minnesota DOT Discusses Efforts To Add Native Language Road Signage
MnDOT joins efforts by states to add road signage in the languages of its Indigenous people.
The United States is a country with no national language, and with over 150 Indigenous languages still spoken today. With 5.2 million Indigenous people residing in the US today, speaking these 150+ languages—why aren’t more of our road signs printed in these native languages? Teams from the Minnesota and Iowa Departments of Transportation, along with Indigenous partners, set out to change that. Ed Fairbanks, the retired Tribal Liaison for the Minnesota DOT and Mary Otto, the Tribal State Relations Training Manager in Minnesota DOT’s Office of Tribal Affairs, along with Brennan Dolan, the Cultural Resources Team Lead and Tribal Liaison at Iowa DOT, appeared on AASHTO's ETAP Podcast to talk about the effort with host Bernie Wagenblast.
