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Lakota, n. and a.|ləˈkəʊtə|
Pl. unchanged or Lakotas.
[a. Dakota (Teton dialect) lakhóta: see Dakota n. and a.]
A. n.
1. (A member of) a Sioux Indian people of western South Dakota; = Teton n. a.
[1852S. R. Riggs Gram. & Dict. Dakota Language 135/1 La-kó-ta, n. Dakota.] 1918F. Densmore Teton Sioux Music (U.S. Bureau Amer. Ethnol. Bull. No. 61) 2 The tribal name, which is pronounced Dakota by the Santee and by the Yankton group, and Lakota by the Teton. 1939E. Buechel Gram. Lakota i. 2 The Teton Sioux Indian..or Lakota. 1979J. Halifax Shamanic Voices (1980) iii. 70 John Fire Lame Deer, a full-blooded Lakota born on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota. 1992Native Peoples Winter 70/2 (Advt.), 1991 American Indian Film Festival... Hundreds of Lakota riding horseback in 70° below zero weather commemorating the victims of The Wounded Knee Massacre.
2. The Sioux dialect of this people; = Teton n. b.
1939E. Buechel Gram. Lakota i. 2 When the student masters Lakota, he may omit these marks and write as the Indian does. 1990World Mag. No. 46. 26/2 If we were caught speaking our language..the teacher would bend a ruler back and then let it go against our mouths. Another girl and I went on speaking Lakota anyway.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to this people or their language.
[1870S. R. Riggs (title) Lakota ABC wowapi.] 1971E. Shorris Death of Great Spirit iii. 24 She, as a woman, a dreamer and wailer of her Lakota songs, must stop, disappear. 1989M. Dorris Broken Cord iv. 58 She..revealed that not only did she have a Lakota name to give to Adam but that she would bestow one on me as well. |