Lakotan.adj.

1846 R. B. Sage Scenes Rocky Mts. xi. 100 Let the Lacota take them by the hand whenever he meets them upon the prairie.

1889 Amer. Anthropologist 2 144 The Lakotas became unwilling to lay their dead in the ground.

1979 J. Halifax Shamanic Voices (1980) iii. 70 John Fire Lame Deer, a full-blooded Lakota born on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota.

1992 Native Peoples Winter 70/2 (advt.) Hundreds of Lakota riding horseback in 70° below zero weather commemorating the victims of The Wounded Knee Massacre.

2009 Yale Law Jrnl. 118 1113 The Lakota believe they will lose their identity as a people if they accept money for their sacred lands.

1939 E. Buechel Gram. Lakota i. 2 When the student masters Lakota, he may omit these marks and write as the Indian does.

1990 World 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.

2015 Herald-Times (Bloomington, Indiana) (Nexis) 4 Nov. Nationwide, about 6,000 people speak Lakota.

1846 R. B. Sage Scenes Rocky Mts. xi. 101 One of these it was who..sought to spill the blood of a Lacota brave.

1889 Amer. Anthropologist 2 143 George Bushotter, a Teton or Lakota Indian, recorded 257 texts in his native dialect by request of the Director of the Bureau of Ethnology.

1932 J. Neihardt Black Elk Speaks xx. 229 I could not talk their language. I made signs, and the girl learned a few Lakota words.

1971 E. Shorris Death of Great Spirit iii. 24 She, as a woman, a dreamer and wailer of her Lakota songs, must stop, disappear.

1989 M. 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.

2017 Washington Post (Nexis) 2 July b4 We witnessed veterans at Standing Rock apologizing to the Lakota people for the atrocities that the U.S. military had committed against them.