a former territory of the US: divided into the states of North Dakota and South Dakota in 1889
Dakota in American English
(dəˈkoutə)
noun
1.
a former territory in the United States: divided into the states of North Dakota and South Dakota 1889
2.
North Dakota or South Dakota
3. See the Dakotas
4. Also called: Sioux
a member of the largest tribe of the Siouan stock of Native Americans, who originally occupied Minnesota and Wisconsin and later migrated westward to the Great Plains
5. "> Santee (sense 3)
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7.
a Siouan language spoken by the Dakota and Assiniboin Indians