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
• It’s known as the cold moon to the Cherokee people, the hard moon to the Lakota and the whirling wind moon to the Passamaquoddy tribe.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 13 Jan. 2025
• The Dakota and Lakota tribes described it as the Planting Moon, or the time of year when seeds should be sowed.
  — Hannah Poukish, Sacbee.com, 4 May 2025
• 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
• The Ojibwe, Dakota and Lakota tribes also used the name, which marked the wild strawberries in June.
  — Julia Gomez, USA Today, 11 June 2025
• 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
• And my mother was Lakota and Chippewa from Spirit Lake.
  — Nick Estes, New Yorker, 26 June 2025
• 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
• The Lakota passed down other stories from that day across the generations.
  — Tim Madigan, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Oct. 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
• During the summer, visitors can hear Lakota stories and watch hoop dancing on the Grand View Terrace in the morning.
  — Lisa Meyers McClintick, USA Today, 21 June 2025
• 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 movie, filmed in 2022, follows the story of a waitress and military veteran seeking a rare Lakota Ghost shirt, which has fallen onto the black market in a small town.
  — Audrey Gibbs, The Tennessean, 14 Aug. 2025
• Kite dug into the Lakota dream language to process the knowledge that her family received through their dreams from spirits and animals.
  — Iris Kim, NBC News, 29 Nov. 2024
• 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
• Share [Findings] The birth of a white buffalo fulfilled a Lakota prophecy portending better times.
  — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 22 Jan. 2025
• Share [Findings] The birth of a white buffalo fulfilled a Lakota prophecy portending better times.
  — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
• After two students were hit by cars near Lakota schools this year, the district is hosting a panel discussion on traffic safety later this month.
  — Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 10 Oct. 2024
• The actor, who is Hunkpapa Lakota, knew how authenticity was important to the creative team and showrunners.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 9 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 people who try to tame the wild horse talk, as does the Lakota Indian who escapes captivity with him, and the result is a story that plays with your preconceptions of what Americana and an animal adventure can be.
  — James Grebey, Vulture, 31 Jan. 2025