1860s-'80s territory on the Canadian border

Usage examples of dakota.

This simplest form is that which alone appears among the Algonkins and Dakotas.

Those tribes having for their customs the practice of compound major mutilations are the Fiji Islanders, Sandwich Islanders, Tahitians, Tongans, Samoans, Javanese, Sumatrans, natives of Malagasy, Hottentots, Damaras, Bechuanas, Kaffirs, the Congo people, the Coast Negroes, Inland Negroes, Dahomeans, Ashantees, Fulahs, Abyssinians, Arabs, and Dakotas.

The plane Was an ancient C-47, the Model T of the air in its civilian DC-3 version, which Brits called a Dakota and Americans had once dubbed the Gooney Bird.

Proponents on both sides of the Brownback bill ran television ads in Utah, North Dakota, Georgia, and Washington, D.

Dakota followed him, stepping over the semiconscious forms of the Cutters and pausing only briefly, to grab the white Card that they had taken.

Dakota new gentes have been formed by the adoption into the tribe of foreigners, i.

The Bjerke family had been in North Dakota since the 1870s, and only the oldest of the old still spoke anything more than a few words of Norski, but, like most in this part of the state, they kept a trace of the old accent, more as a badge of pride than anything else.

August afternoon in 1950 that Simon Templar uncoiled his lean seventyfour-inch frame from the seat he had occupied for interminable hours in the creaking Parnassian Airways Dakota, and stepped down on to the tarmac of Athens Airport.

Pawnee were better, but they were inferior to those made by the Dakota, Ponka, and Omaha.

And this arrangement by sevens is the rule among Osage, Kansa, Ponka, Omaha, and Dakota, though there are apparent exceptions.

May of that year he was sent to Dakota Territory as a missionary among the Ponka Indians.

While among the Omaha and Ponka a chief can not lead in war, there is a different custom among the Dakota.

There are hundreds of them: smooth black Fred Astaire canes and rough chewed alpenstocks, blackthorns and quarterstaffs, cudgels and swagger sticks, bamboo and ironwood, maple and slippery elm, canes from Tangier, Maine, Zurich, Panama City, Quebec, Togoland, the Dakotas and Borneo, resting in notched compartments that resemble arms racks in an armory.

He had a pleasant home near Fargo, North Dakota, and a decent apartment in the New York zone of Appalachia, and of course this island in the Mediterranean.

The South Dakota Independent party, with the president of the state Alliance as its standard bearer, was unable to defeat the Republican candidates for state offices but obtained the balance of power in the legislature.