Dakota
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a former territory in the United States: divided into the states of North Dakota and South Dakota in 1889.
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the Dakotas, North Dakota and South Dakota.
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Also called Sioux. a member of the largest tribe of the Siouan stock of North American Indians, who originally occupied Minnesota and Wisconsin and later migrated westward to the Great Plains.
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a Siouan language spoken by the Dakota and Assiniboin Indians.
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That’s true of a new South Dakota law, currently being challenged in federal court, that covers what it frames as illegal advertising.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026
The capital of North Dakota, Bismarck, and Glacier National Park in Montana would see a sunrise of 9:28 a.m.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
“If you are not directly involved in data-center work, the broader construction market feels relatively weak,” an electrical contractor in North Dakota said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
In the Dakota Territory, the future president regained his physical strength and emotional equilibrium, while he deepened his rapport with ordinary Americans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
When the policeman got there, Claude was banging on the door and hollering for someone to let him out, and there was a whole big family from South Dakota wanting to get in.
From "The Best School Year Ever" by Barbara Robinson
The same storm caused a GPS outage during a critical planting time in the Dakotas and northern Minnesota that cost farmers an estimated $1 billion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
The fact that Morès was neighbors with Teddy Roosevelt out in the Dakotas is such an interesting historical coincidence.
From Slate ● Mar. 2, 2026
"The Naashoibito dinosaurs lived at the same time as the famous Hell Creek species in Montana and the Dakotas," said Daniel Peppe, Ph.D., associate professor of geosciences at Baylor University.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2025
Data center developers are working in Alabama, the Dakotas and Indiana, “traditionally states that wouldn’t have data centers,” Eades said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2024
On November 11 farmers in the Dakotas awoke after a windy night to find something they had never seen before—daytime skies turned black by topsoil scoured from their fields and carried aloft by the wind.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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