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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A woman in North Dakota was found to have fraudulently received $128,601 in SSI payments — but that figure was collected over 10 years, averaging fraud of $12,860 a year.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 4, 2026
That manipulative trend continued Monday with the Mississippi and North Dakota orders.
From Slate • May 19, 2026
The current price run-up is pumping tax revenues into communities stretching from Alaska to North Dakota to the small towns speckling West Texas and New Mexico.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 17, 2026
Filming on the Hulu reality series paused in mid-March after the Draper City Police Department in Utah launched an investigation that involved Paul and her ex-boyfriend Dakota Mortensen.
From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2026
They weren’t just hills—they were the only mountains in South Dakota.
From "In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse" by Joseph Marshall III
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