Dakota
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Dakotas
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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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It is managed by the US Department of Energy's Sanford Underground Research Facility in South Dakota - the deepest laboratory in the US at nearly a mile beneath the ground.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
From what can be gleaned from sections released so far, the country has been divided into the “Still United” states and an illiberal territory called the Dakota Membership.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
The fossil was excavated from Upper Cretaceous rock layers in the Hell Creek Formation of South Dakota.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026
In rural markets, beneficiaries had fewer choices — such as none in Alaska, one in Vermont, four in South Dakota and three in Wyoming, KFF found.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
“With this wind, it’ll be blown clear over to North Dakota in no time.”
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
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
He claimed he did, so finally we were on our way to the big skies of the Dakotas and to the Red River valley, the American Nile.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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