How to Use Lakota in a Sentence

Lakota

noun
  • There was a famine that prompted the Lakota chief to send scouts to hunt for food.
    — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 1 July 2024
  • According to Lakota lore, the white calf would come at a time when the world is in need of great healing.
    — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 27 June 2024
  • Some of the images depict tragedy, like the year that the Lakota people faced smallpox.
    — April Wallace, arkansasonline.com, 12 Sep. 2024
  • If Mark were Lakota, his name might have been Respects Nothing.
    — Ian Frazier, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
  • The Lakota passed down other stories from that day across the generations.
    — Tim Madigan, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Oct. 2024
  • Lakota and Cheyenne artists also depicted the battle, though to less fanfare.
    — New York Times, 28 June 2026
  • In the ensuing action, many Lakota men, women and children sought to escape via ravines that cut through the area.
    — Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 1 Aug. 2024
  • Dennis is also listed as a teacher on Lakota's website.
    — Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Because looking at Dances With Wolves, that's a huge thing for the Lakota people.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 29 June 2024
  • 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
  • The faces of four presidents are carved into one mountain, that of a Lakota leader into a neighboring one.
    — Grayson Haver Currin, Outside Online, 7 July 2024
  • It’s known as the cold moon to the Cherokee people, the hard moon to the Lakota and the whirling wind moon to the Passamaquoddy tribe.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 13 Jan. 2025
  • But the remarkable thing about the new Lakota dub of The Avengers is that it was done by the original actors themselves.
    — Christian Holub, EW.com, 8 July 2024
  • The Lakota people have long argued that the land was confiscated illegally and should be restored to them.
    — Hannah Fish, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Kite dug into the Lakota dream language to process the knowledge that her family received through their dreams from spirits and animals.
    — Iris Kim, NBC News, 29 Nov. 2024
  • Arthur Janis is a member of the Oglala Lakota Nation, for whom hair is sacred from the moment of birth.
    — Joe Kottke, NBC News, 10 Dec. 2023
  • The Ojibwe, Dakota and Lakota tribes also used the name, which marked the wild strawberries in June.
    — Julia Gomez, USA Today, 11 June 2025
  • Chief Calvin Standing Bear (Sicangu and Oglala Lakota) speaks a prayer over the bronze bison.
    — Christa Swanson, CBS News, 22 Mar. 2026
  • In fact, it’s tangled up with the history of the Lakota Nation, the people who had lived and hunted on the prairie for generations.
    — TIME, 5 Oct. 2023
  • 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
  • For the Lakota, the Moon of the Popping Trees remains a consistent marker of the deep, bitter freeze of late winter.
    — Owen Clarke, Outside, 23 Jan. 2026
  • The Ojibwe, Dakota and Lakota tribes also used the name to mark the full moon to the harvesting of wild strawberries in June.
    — Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 28 May 2026
  • 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
  • During the summer, visitors can hear Lakota stories and watch hoop dancing on the Grand View Terrace in the morning.
    — Lisa Meyers McClintick, USA Today, 21 June 2025
  • There's a story that goes way back to some of our Lakota astrology stories about the asteroid belt that surrounds and protects our Mother Earth.
    — Rachel Chang, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Sep. 2024
  • Guides point out natural highlights and boxwork formations and discuss the history and significance of the cave to the Lakota people.
    — Robert Annis, Midwest Living, 14 May 2026
  • There, in and around the reservation where her people live or used to, Tana re-connects after many years with various Oglala Lakota cousins and other relatives.
    — Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 22 Aug. 2023
  • The work on muslin was by Standing Bear, a Minneconjou Lakota artist who had fought in the battle as a teenager, and recreated it more than four decades later.
    — New York Times, 28 June 2026
  • For some North American Indigenous groups like the Lakota, however, the crackling of a forest in the deep cold is just the sound of winter.
    — Owen Clarke, Outside, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Sitting Bull, the Lakota leader whose followers secured the victory, toured with the production for several months.
    — New York Times, 28 June 2026

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