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# lakota

noun (Lakota, a Lakota); adjective (Lakota)

«lakota» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A Native American people of the Great Plains, part of the Sioux nation, living mostly in North and South Dakota. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lakota/#m1)
2. The language of the Lakota people. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lakota/#m2)

### In the lessons

In history lessons the Lakota are famous for leaders like Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, for buffalo hunting on the plains and for the Battle of the Little Bighorn (1876). Their sacred Black Hills were taken by the USA. Many Lakota people today work to keep their language alive.

### Examples

- The Lakota lived on the Great Plains and hunted buffalo. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lakota/#x1)
- Sitting Bull was a Lakota leader. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lakota/#x2)
- The Black Hills are sacred to the Lakota people. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lakota/#x3)
- Some schools teach the Lakota language. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lakota/#x4)
- Lakota children learn the stories of their elders. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lakota/#x5)

### Note

Capital L. Plural: Lakota or Lakotas. Related to Dakota and Nakota.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «lakota» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lakota/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«lakota» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/lakota.html) on Mova free.