Hunkpapa
Americannoun
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Lajimodiere’s appointment is impactful and inspirational because “representation counts at all levels,” said Nicole Donaghy, executive director of the advocacy group North Dakota Native Vote and a Hunkpapa Lakota from the Standing Rock Sioux Nation.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 7, 2023
Her father was Hunkpapa Lakota, her mother white.
From Salon • Jun. 29, 2022
Two years prior, Sitting Bull had asked her, according to her own telling, to give Hunkpapa Lakota women a future.
From Slate • Oct. 25, 2021
“Someone goes missing just about every day … from a tribal community,” said Lynnette Grey Bull, who is Hunkpapa Lakota and Northern Arapaho and director of the organization Not Our Native Daughters.
From Washington Times • Sep. 25, 2021
Crazy Horse joined a big, tall man named Gall, a Hunkpapa Lakota war leader.
From "In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse" by Joseph Marshall III
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