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Dakotas

Dakotas \Da*ko"tas\, n. pl.; sing. Dacota. (Ethnol.) An extensive race or stock of Indians, including many tribes, mostly dwelling west of the Mississippi River; -- also, in part, called Sioux. [Written also Dacotahs.] [1913 Webster] ||

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dakotas

n. (plural of Dakota English)

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Figure one regiment of SS-i8s targeted on the Washington area, and most of the others targeted on our missile fields in the Dakotas, plus the sub bases at Charleston, King's Bay, Bangor, and the rest.

This explanation is confirmed by the fact that in the legends of the Iowa Indians, who were a branch of the Dakotas, or Sioux Indians, and relatives of the Mandans (according to Major James W.

While the Dakotas, according to Major Lynd, who lived among them for nine years, possessed legends of "huge skiffs, in which the Dakotas of old floated for weeks, finally gaining dry land"--a reminiscence of ships and long sea-voyages.

The color of the Dakotas varies with the nation, and also with the age and condition of the individual.

In the next figure we have a representation of the war-god of the Dakotas, with something like a trident in his hand.

They were expelled from their reservation in Colorado and taken to the Dakotas, but they didn’t like it there.

In the Dakotas ugly things had been happening at these forced sales, and Bogardus was determined that this one, unfortunate though it might be, must go off smoothly.