One of three Sioux dialects

Usage examples of lakota.

She knew something of the culture of the Oglala Lakota and she had a feel for its history.

Unlike many Lakota who were victims of prejudice, nobody pushed Tate Winthrop.

There would be a large contingent of Lakota at the three-day September event, and native dancing and singing as well.

He looked as if all he needed was a breastplate and feathers in his hair to bring back the heyday of the Lakota warrior in the nineteenth century.

Leta was one of the most educated women she knew, politically active on sovereignty issues for her tribe and an advocate of literacy programs for young Lakota people.

Mexican War in the early 1800s, pure Lakota blood, undiluted even by white settlement.

French blood as well as Lakota, that his grandfather had been a minor royal in Morocco, that his grandmother had been French aristocracy.

Colby suddenly drew the old man away from the women and spoke to him in a Lakota dialect, softly, so that none of the neighbors could overhear.

Sioux is actually a misnomer, because the people call themselves Lakota in this region.

There are various bands of Lakota, like Minneconjou and Hunkpapa and Oglala.

A member of the gambling syndicate came and sat down in my office and told me that he was going to make me a political scandal poster-boy with my Lakota mistress and my bastard son.

But one of my Lakota great-grandfathers married a young blond white woman at the turn of the century.

He hated his culture for a while, and became a detective, trying to hide his Lakota blood by living white.

She could speak Lakota like a native and ride and shoot like a warrior.

Another glance at the others, as if one might be Lakota and should take the question.