In this chapter, we address the challenges and the problems that we have faced while we were trying to develop a dictionary for the Kharia Sabar speech community, which is an indigenous endangered tribal community living in the district of Purulia in the state of West Bengal, India. The challenges that we have faced may be classified into two broad types, namely, extralinguistic challenges and linguistic challenges (Ivanishcheva in Journal of Linguistics 67:73–86, 2016). The extralinguistic challenges are primarily related to awareness about the importance of such a knowledge text among the members of the community; careful investigation of the attitude of the community members relating to the procurement of data and information from their life, living, culture, history, heritage, and ecology (Littell et al. in Proceedings of the 2nd workshop on the use of computational methods in the study of endangered languages. Association for Computational Linguistics, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, pp. 141–150, 2017); logistic issues in data collection from the Urheimat (i.e., the primaeval habitation) of the community through on-the-spot interviews; demographic and ethical issues in selection of appropriate respondents; availability of funds for conducting elaborate linguistic surveys; a collection of lexical data covering all major aspects of the community life; availability of trained human resource for lexical processing, analysis and dictionary compilation; and availability of agencies who are willing to publish dictionary as a commercial product. The linguistic challenges, on the other hand, are largely associated with collection of lexical data from community members; sufficiency, diversity and variety of lexical data types (Lam et al. in Proceedings of the 2014 workshop on the use of computational methods in the study of endangered languages. Association for Computational Linguistics, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, pp. 54–62, 2014); paucity of lexicographic details for entry words; citation of example sentences for determining usage-based sense variations of polysemous entries; inadequacy of linguistic description of lexical items for addressing referential and pedagogical requirements (Rehg in The Oxford handbook of endangered languages. Oxford University Press, 2018); utilization of pictures, images and diagrams for a visual representation of complex concepts and ideas of the community and similar other issues. Many of these challenges are linked with several theoretical and ethical issues―all of which combine together to make the process of dictionary-making for the Kharia Sabar community an upheaval task fretted with many caveats and shortcomings particularly in those contexts when their folk texts, verbal narratives, written materials and historical records are not available for reference and utilization (Mosel in Language documentation and description, SOAS, 2004). Keeping the challenges in view, in this paper, we discuss the strategies that we have adopted to overcome the hurdles we have faced during the stages of compilation of the dictionary, which is being built to primarily help in the process of preserving and promoting the endangered indigenous language against a backdrop of camouflaged aggression of more powerful neighbouring languages. The dictionary that we are developing will be used by the Kharia Sabar speakers for general reference and pedagogic purposes, while outside people will use it for academic, commercial and localization purposes.