Lakota

Or La·kho·ta

[luh-koh-tuh]

noun

1. another name for Teton.

Example Sentences

The Lakota leader Sitting Bull defeated George Custer’s cavalry, but a sustained conflict with American forces proved ruinous.

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The Lakota chief Sitting Bull and his starving band of followers ended nearly two decades of intermittent warfare with the United States on July 20, 1881, when they surrendered at Fort Buford, in Dakota Territory.

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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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