plural Lakota also Lakotas
1
: a member of a western division of the Dakota peoples
2
: a dialect of Dakota
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He was known for his opposition to U.S. encroachment on the northern Great Plains, the ancestral homelands of the Lakota people.
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Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Dec. 2024
Peltier was involved in the American Indian Movement (AIM) in the 1970s, which led him to travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota amid tensions between the tribal chairman and a traditionalist faction of the Lakota nation.
—Zack Budryk, The Hill, 13 Dec. 2024
Bookshop This is an extended overview of the resource struggles between the Lakota communities of the Northern Plains, the federal government, and corporations.
—The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2024
In May, 15-year-old Aspen Dylan Runnels was walking in a crosswalk toward the end of the school day at the Lakota East Freshman Campus and was struck by Hyde.
—Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 4 Dec. 2024
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Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Dec. 2024
Peltier was involved in the American Indian Movement (AIM) in the 1970s, which led him to travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota amid tensions between the tribal chairman and a traditionalist faction of the Lakota nation.
—Zack Budryk, The Hill, 13 Dec. 2024
Bookshop This is an extended overview of the resource struggles between the Lakota communities of the Northern Plains, the federal government, and corporations.
—The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2024
In May, 15-year-old Aspen Dylan Runnels was walking in a crosswalk toward the end of the school day at the Lakota East Freshman Campus and was struck by Hyde.
—Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 4 Dec. 2024
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“Lakota.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Lakota. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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