plural Lakota also Lakotas
1
: a member of a western division of the Dakota peoples
2
: a dialect of Dakota
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The name can be traced all the way to the Old Farmers’ Almanac; full and new moons were used to track seasons, and Native American tribes (according to the Austin-American Statesman: the Algonquin, Ojibwe, Dakota, and Lakota tribes) named this lunar event to mark peak strawberry season.
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Abigail Wilt, Southern Living, 21 June 2024
In 2016, the Standing Rock Sioux (Dakota and Lakota) and thousands of land and water protectors withstood attack dogs and water cannons in a fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline expansion, which threatened water, burial grounds, and sacred sites on their land.
—Hazlitt, 19 June 2024
The story of the white buffalo calf in Lakota culture is that a holy woman appeared to them during a time of famine, per the NPS.
—Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 June 2024
The Ojibwe, Dakota, and Lakota tribes also used the name to mark the full moon that coincided with the ripening of strawberries.
—Hanh Truong, Sacramento Bee, 17 June 2024
Jazzy — the title role — is a young Oglala Lakota girl growing up in South Dakota with her best friend Syriah.
—Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 13 June 2024
The next year, the association faced more anger and eventually withdrew an award for a novel widely criticized for its sympathetic portrait of a cavalry officer who participated in the slaughter of Lakota Indians at the Battle of Wounded Knee.
—Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 1 June 2024
Coolidge gave another speech in the Black Hills on August 10, at Mount Rushmore, which was known by the Lakota as the Six Grandfathers Mountain but was later renamed for New York attorney Charles Rushmore by white settlers.
—Francine Uenuma, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 May 2024
Aspen Dylan Runnels, 15, was in a crosswalk by Lakota East High School on Wednesday, May 15, when he was struck by the pickup truck, according to ABC affiliate WCPO and FOX affiliate WXIX-TV.
—Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 22 May 2024
Abigail Wilt, Southern Living, 21 June 2024
In 2016, the Standing Rock Sioux (Dakota and Lakota) and thousands of land and water protectors withstood attack dogs and water cannons in a fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline expansion, which threatened water, burial grounds, and sacred sites on their land.
—Hazlitt, 19 June 2024
The story of the white buffalo calf in Lakota culture is that a holy woman appeared to them during a time of famine, per the NPS.
—Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 June 2024
The Ojibwe, Dakota, and Lakota tribes also used the name to mark the full moon that coincided with the ripening of strawberries.
—Hanh Truong, Sacramento Bee, 17 June 2024
Jazzy — the title role — is a young Oglala Lakota girl growing up in South Dakota with her best friend Syriah.
—Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 13 June 2024
The next year, the association faced more anger and eventually withdrew an award for a novel widely criticized for its sympathetic portrait of a cavalry officer who participated in the slaughter of Lakota Indians at the Battle of Wounded Knee.
—Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 1 June 2024
Coolidge gave another speech in the Black Hills on August 10, at Mount Rushmore, which was known by the Lakota as the Six Grandfathers Mountain but was later renamed for New York attorney Charles Rushmore by white settlers.
—Francine Uenuma, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 May 2024
Aspen Dylan Runnels, 15, was in a crosswalk by Lakota East High School on Wednesday, May 15, when he was struck by the pickup truck, according to ABC affiliate WCPO and FOX affiliate WXIX-TV.
—Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 22 May 2024
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