How to Use Lakota in a Sentence

Lakota

noun
Definition of Lakotanext
  • 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
  • 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 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, 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

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