How to Use Lakota in a Sentence

Lakota

noun

• There was a famine that prompted the Lakota chief to send scouts to hunt for food.
  — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 1 July 2024
• According to Lakota lore, the white calf would come at a time when the world is in need of great healing.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 27 June 2024
• Some of the images depict tragedy, like the year that the Lakota people faced smallpox.
  — April Wallace, arkansasonline.com, 12 Sep. 2024
• Because looking at Dances With Wolves, that's a huge thing for the Lakota people.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 29 June 2024
• But the remarkable thing about the new Lakota dub of The Avengers is that it was done by the original actors themselves.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 8 July 2024
• Arthur Janis is a member of the Oglala Lakota Nation, for whom hair is sacred from the moment of birth.
  — Joe Kottke, NBC News, 10 Dec. 2023
• The story of the white buffalo calf in Lakota culture is that a holy woman appeared to them during a time of famine, per the NPS.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 June 2024
• In the ensuing action, many Lakota men, women and children sought to escape via ravines that cut through the area.
  — Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 1 Aug. 2024
• In fact, it’s tangled up with the history of the Lakota Nation, the people who had lived and hunted on the prairie for generations.
  — TIME, 5 Oct. 2023
• The Ojibwe, Dakota, and Lakota tribes also used the name to mark the full moon that coincided with the ripening of strawberries.
  — Hanh Truong, Sacramento Bee, 17 June 2024
• The faces of four presidents are carved into one mountain, that of a Lakota leader into a neighboring one.
  — Grayson Haver Currin, Outside Online, 7 July 2024
• Soldiers had surrounded the Lakota when the gunfire erupted.
  — Nicole Santa Cruz, ProPublica, 20 Oct. 2023
• The Lakota people have long argued that the land was confiscated illegally and should be restored to them.
  — Hannah Fish, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Nov. 2023
• There's a story that goes way back to some of our Lakota astrology stories about the asteroid belt that surrounds and protects our Mother Earth.
  — Rachel Chang, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Sep. 2024
• There, in and around the reservation where her people live or used to, Tana re-connects after many years with various Oglala Lakota cousins and other relatives.
  — Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 22 Aug. 2023
• The downfall of the Lakota West Firebirds has been greatly exaggerated.
  — Alex Harrison, The Enquirer, 8 Sep. 2023
• His family has been charged with protecting the sacred Lakota traditions for 19 generations.
  — Sean Keane, ABC News, 30 Sep. 2024
• As the title indicates, the work speaks to the Lakota cosmological conception that inanimate objects have souls and communicate, and therefore should be handled respectfully.
  — Harrison Jacobs, ARTnews.com, 19 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024