The MLC has developed a language community called “Strikes The Enemy”. They consist of parents and grandparents working together as a community to become fluent in Arikara and teach their children. They are all committed to learning the language while learning about the Arikara Creation Stories and mythologies which give the language meaning and context. The language community is committed to creating a dialect of Arikara that has been named the “Strikes The Enemy” dialect. This name reflects that many of the members are descendants of the Arikara sub-chief “Strikes The Enemy”. The kanaachitawiu (leader) in 2013 spent the year devising a 3,000 word dictionary transforming the Arikara polysynthetic language into an analytic language. The MLC has been meeting weekly refining and agreeing on the spelling and word transformations. This language community will launch a language nest with ten of their own children beginning in June, 2018. It has become apparent to members of the MLC that although they have a grasp of the language, they will never achieve true proficiency. The group spends about 90% of their efforts on activities related to Arikara survival and in doing so realize that a drastic change is needed in order to achieve fluent speakers.