How do you use Lakota in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like teton or sioux, plus the exact meaning.
Lakota in a sentence
Lakota meaning
A member of a Native American tribe, also known as the Sioux, now living primarily on the Rosebud, Pine Ridge, Lower Brule, Standing Rock and Cheyenne River Reservations.
Using Lakota
- The main meaning on this page is: A member of a Native American tribe, also known as the Sioux, now living primarily on the Rosebud, Pine Ridge, Lower Brule, Standing Rock and Cheyenne River Reservations.
- Useful related words include: teton, teton sioux, teton dakota, sioux.
- In the example corpus, lakota often appears in combinations such as: the lakota, lakota and, and lakota.
Context around Lakota
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 9 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Lakota
- In this selection, "lakota" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, name, autonym, wolves, language, nation and medicine stand out and add context to how "lakota" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include acknowledged the lakota nation as and at the lakota nation invitational. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "lakota" sits close to words such as abeokuta, abstained and acupuncture, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with lakota
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Ethnonyms The name Lakota comes from the Lakota autonym, Lakota "feeling affection, friendly, united, allied". (15 words)
Waln also claimed the top spot at the Lakota Nation Invitational and Bennett County Tournament. (15 words)
Hand’s roots growing up in a Lakota language-speaking household laid the foundation for his career. (17 words)
Photographer Stephanie Keith said: ‘Lakota medicine man Ivan Lookinghorse invited me on a ride by the Lakota people to mark the 150th anniversary of the Fort Laramie peace treaty between the Sioux Nation and United States government. (37 words)
Owners and Managers Jim Stein and Becky Mace are clear to point out that they are not affiliated with the Lakota Indian People, they actually named the preserve after one of their first wolves Lakota. (35 words)
On March 11th, the protesters declared themselves part of the Independent Oglala Nation, citing the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie, which acknowledged the Lakota nation as a sovereign entity separate from the United States. (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
Ethnonyms The name Lakota comes from the Lakota autonym, Lakota "feeling affection, friendly, united, allied".
And this isn't to mention (who played Pretty Shield in the film), the Lakota woman who translated Michael Blake's script into the Lakota language.
Owners and Managers Jim Stein and Becky Mace are clear to point out that they are not affiliated with the Lakota Indian People, they actually named the preserve after one of their first wolves Lakota.
Photographer Stephanie Keith said: ‘Lakota medicine man Ivan Lookinghorse invited me on a ride by the Lakota people to mark the 150th anniversary of the Fort Laramie peace treaty between the Sioux Nation and United States government.
Early Lakota history is recorded in their Winter counts ( Lakota : waníyetu wówapi), pictorial calendars painted on hides or later recorded on paper.
The Battiste Good winter count records Lakota history back to 900 CE, when White Buffalo Calf Woman gave the Lakota people the White Buffalo Calf Pipe.
Dellmarie Dullknife Bradfield — whose great-grandfather, Chief Dull Knife, once led the Cheyenne tribe — learned Lakota before she spoke English.
If you want to learn something about America’s indigenous people check out the enlightening documentary Lakota Nation vs United States.
In this photo provided by the University of Colorado-Boulder, Lakota archaeologist Chance Ward examines horse reference collections in the Archaeozoology Laboratory at the University of Colorado-Boulder in October 2020.
Lakota Funds will work with South Dakota Native Homeownership Coalition to expand access to housing and preserving community housing to significantly increase homeownership in Native communities across South Dakota.
On March 11th, the protesters declared themselves part of the Independent Oglala Nation, citing the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie, which acknowledged the Lakota nation as a sovereign entity separate from the United States.
Waln also claimed the top spot at the Lakota Nation Invitational and Bennett County Tournament.
Wil Meya, the CEO of the Language Consortium, estimated several dozen Lakota speakers live in New York City, making it one of in the five boroughs.
A year ago, Lakota escaped from Whipp's backyard, sending Whipp into a spiral of depression and heartbreak after weeks and months went by with no sign of her.
Eugene "Ray" Taken Alive has spent years fighting for the return of information his grandmother provided to the Lakota Language Consortium.
For the last 2,000 years the people of the Lakota, Dakota and Nakoda tribes have told the story of a woman who arrived during a time of need.
Hand’s roots growing up in a Lakota language-speaking household laid the foundation for his career.
He says for the Lakota, the birth of a white buffalo calf with a black nose, eyes and hooves is akin to the second coming of Jesus Christ.
One of the Lakota medicine men told the male warriors that their ghost dance shirts were bulletproof.
The Ponca /Omaha in turn passed on some of their customs to the Lakota (circa 1860) and also to all nations who participate the todays Pow-wow.
Common combinations with lakota
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the lakota 52×
- lakota and 17×
- and lakota 8×
- lakota sioux 6×
- to lakota 5×
- lakota nation 4×
- of lakota 4×
- lakota bands 4×
- lakota people 3×
- lakota dakota 3×