Lakota

Or La·kho·ta

[luh-koh-tuh]

noun

1. another name for Teton.

Example Sentences

His breakthrough came in 1990 when he played Kicking Bird, a Lakota medicine man, in Dances With Wolves.

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Your mom, who’s Lakota and your dad, who’s white, raised you and your twin brother in Montana near Glacier National Park.

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“We don’t represent the Navajo people,” says the actor, who is of Lakota, Irish and German descent.

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There are other Indigenous cultures that speak about this: the Hopi tribe, the Dogon tribe in West Africa, the Lakota tribes.

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The Lakota Sioux of the High Plains put up a heroic resistance to the European immigrants and their descendants who kept coming and coming, prospectors and settlers and soldiers.

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