How to Use Lakota in a Sentence
Lakota
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There was a famine that prompted the Lakota chief to send scouts to hunt for food.
—Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 1 July 2024
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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
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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
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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
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Some of the images depict tragedy, like the year that the Lakota people faced smallpox.
—April Wallace, arkansasonline.com, 12 Sep. 2024
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Because looking at Dances With Wolves, that's a huge thing for the Lakota people.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 29 June 2024
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The Ojibwe, Dakota and Lakota tribes also used the name, which marked the wild strawberries in June.
—Julia Gomez, USA Today, 11 June 2025
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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
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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
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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
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And my mother was Lakota and Chippewa from Spirit Lake.
—Nick Estes, New Yorker, 26 June 2025
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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
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The Lakota passed down other stories from that day across the generations.
—Tim Madigan, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Oct. 2024
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Soldiers had surrounded the Lakota when the gunfire erupted.
—Nicole Santa Cruz, ProPublica, 20 Oct. 2023
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The downfall of the Lakota West Firebirds has been greatly exaggerated.
—Alex Harrison, The Enquirer, 8 Sep. 2023
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Share [Findings] The birth of a white buffalo fulfilled a Lakota prophecy portending better times.
—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
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Share [Findings] The birth of a white buffalo fulfilled a Lakota prophecy portending better times.
—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 22 Jan. 2025
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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
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The actor, who is Hunkpapa Lakota, knew how authenticity was important to the creative team and showrunners.
—Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 9 June 2025
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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
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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
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In the process of interviewing the witnesses, survivors and elders, Short Bull deployed a style rooted more in the Lakota culture of storytelling than in common journalistic practice.
—Tom White, Deadline, 12 Mar. 2025
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