Dakota

American  

[duh-koh-tuh] / dəˈkoʊ tə /

noun

1. a former territory in the United States: divided into the states of North Dakota and South Dakota in 1889.

2. North Dakota or South Dakota.

3. the Dakotas, North Dakota and South Dakota.

4. 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.

5. Santee.

6. a Siouan language spoken by the Dakota and Assiniboin Indians.

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Dakota British  

/ dəˈkəʊtə /

noun

1. a former territory of the US: divided into the states of North Dakota and South Dakota in 1889

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Other Word Forms

• Dakotan adjective

Example Sentences

Her other credits include the animated series “Little Bill” as the voice of Fuchsia Glover and the animated 2001 musical “Santa Baby!” as the voice of Dakota.

From Los Angeles Times

One tribe from North Dakota is helping members get tribal IDs in a room piled with cases of bottled water, toilet paper, packaged food and pots of warm soup.

From The Wall Street Journal

West Virginia, Massachusetts, South Dakota, Louisiana, Iowa, Illinois—these isolated local stories are combining to mark a nationwide desecration of the dead.

From The Wall Street Journal

As the court put it in South Dakota v.

From The Wall Street Journal

The president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe in South Dakota is demanding the release of three tribal members detained by ICE officers in Minneapolis, Minnesota last Friday.

From Salon