plural Lakota also Lakotas
1
: a member of a western division of the Dakota peoples
2
: a dialect of Dakota
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Enter fellow local outcast, rancher Lefty Ledbetter (Hauser), who just might have the funds to get out of town…if the theft of a coveted Indigenous Lakota ghost shirt goes through.
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Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 15 May 2025
The Dakota and Lakota tribes described it as the Planting Moon, or the time of year when seeds should be sowed.
—Hannah Poukish, Sacbee.com, 4 May 2025
Your mom, who’s Lakota and your dad, who’s white, raised you and your twin brother in Montana near Glacier National Park.
—Hugh Hart, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2025
Thirteen years before the photograph was made, Harney, the general who stands with Sophie in the photograph, attacked a Lakota village at a place called Blue Water Creek in western Nebraska.
—Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Apr. 2025
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Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 15 May 2025
The Dakota and Lakota tribes described it as the Planting Moon, or the time of year when seeds should be sowed.
—Hannah Poukish, Sacbee.com, 4 May 2025
Your mom, who’s Lakota and your dad, who’s white, raised you and your twin brother in Montana near Glacier National Park.
—Hugh Hart, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2025
Thirteen years before the photograph was made, Harney, the general who stands with Sophie in the photograph, attacked a Lakota village at a place called Blue Water Creek in western Nebraska.
—Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Apr. 2025
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“Lakota.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Lakota. Accessed 18 May. 2025.
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