plural Lakota also Lakotas
1
: a member of a western division of the Dakota peoples
2
: a dialect of Dakota
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The Lakota Local Schools Board of Education held a special meeting on Wednesday to discuss the state's school voucher system.
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Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
Heather Dawn Thompson, a Lakota attorney from the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe who recently joined the World Wildlife Fund as its vice president of Native Nations Conservation and Food Systems, is working with the Lifeways Collaboration to grow support.
—Karl Schneider, IndyStar, 2 July 2025
And my mother was Lakota and Chippewa from Spirit Lake.
—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
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Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
Heather Dawn Thompson, a Lakota attorney from the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe who recently joined the World Wildlife Fund as its vice president of Native Nations Conservation and Food Systems, is working with the Lifeways Collaboration to grow support.
—Karl Schneider, IndyStar, 2 July 2025
And my mother was Lakota and Chippewa from Spirit Lake.
—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
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“Lakota.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Lakota. Accessed 26 Jul. 2025.
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