plural Lakota also Lakotas
1
: a member of a western division of the Dakota peoples
2
: a dialect of Dakota
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And my mother was Lakota and Chippewa from Spirit Lake.
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Nick Estes, New Yorker, 26 June 2025
Chief Henry Standing Bear proposed a carving of a Lakota leader in the Black Hills, and work began in 1948 on Crazy Horse Memorial about 15 miles from Mount Rushmore.
—Lisa Meyers McClintick, USA Today, 21 June 2025
But this perspective, Running Horse said, is very different from the Lakota approach, in which the core unit of organization is not the individual but the ecosystem.
—Saul Elbein, The Hill, 16 May 2025
The movie, which world premiered at SXSW 2023, follows the lives of local outsiders and outcasts who violently intertwine when a rare Lakota Ghost shirt falls onto the black market in a small South Dakota town.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 16 June 2025
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Nick Estes, New Yorker, 26 June 2025
Chief Henry Standing Bear proposed a carving of a Lakota leader in the Black Hills, and work began in 1948 on Crazy Horse Memorial about 15 miles from Mount Rushmore.
—Lisa Meyers McClintick, USA Today, 21 June 2025
But this perspective, Running Horse said, is very different from the Lakota approach, in which the core unit of organization is not the individual but the ecosystem.
—Saul Elbein, The Hill, 16 May 2025
The movie, which world premiered at SXSW 2023, follows the lives of local outsiders and outcasts who violently intertwine when a rare Lakota Ghost shirt falls onto the black market in a small South Dakota town.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 16 June 2025
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“Lakota.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Lakota. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.
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