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单词 Lakota
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Definition of Lakota in English:

Lakota

nounPlural Lakotasləˈkəʊtələˈkōdə
  • 1A member of a North American people of western South Dakota (also called Teton Sioux).

    Example sentencesExamples
    • For the first time in four decades, save for the usual raids and counterraids with Blackfeet and Lakotas, the Crows had their country to themselves.
    • Heeding the Crows' report that there were Lakotas hunting on the Bighorn and short on grass for the horses, Baker and Roberts turned back early on Sunday, November 12.
    • Nine months earlier, on August 15, 1876, Congress had passed legislation requiring the Lakotas to relinquish their claims to all land outside the Great Sioux Reservation.
    • Realizing that a railroad would destroy their hunting grounds and flood the plains with settlers, the Lakotas under Sitting Bull threatened to resist it.
    • His is neither a biography of Custer nor an examination of wrongs inflicted upon the Northern Cheyennes and the Lakotas.
    • By month's end, it was apparent that the large gathering of Lakotas and Northern Cheyennes who had fought Custer had scattered and that Terry's column had little chance of striking the smaller Indian encampments.
    • Between 1866 and 1891 these men participated in several notable campaigns against Kiowas, Comanches, Cheyennes, Apaches, and Lakotas.
    • He had neutralized Sitting Bull already; if Crazy Horse could be defeated, the Lakotas would be without their two most influential leaders.
    • However, there are actually fourteen Indian casualties in his painting: thirteen Lakotas and one Ankara scout named Little Brave.
    • In Riding Buffaloes and Broncos, Allison Fuss Mellis focuses on three northern plains Indian tribes: Crows, Northern Cheyennes, and Lakotas.
    • Like the Lakotas and Cheyennes, they were horse-and-buffalo Indians.
    • Although the Indians fought to a draw at Wolf Mountains, the battle ultimately proved to be a tactical victory for the army and an unrecoverable military defeat for the Lakotas and Northern Cheyennes.
    • Other Cree bands likely avoided capture because, just as the Lakotas had done in previous years, they remained camped just north of the border, crossing only in small parties in order to trade or hunt.
    • ‘Mad Bear’ Harney deeply humiliated the Lakotas and convinced the Oglalas and Brules that the time had come to withdraw from the Platte.
    • The Cheyennes and Lakotas would have dissented, and assuredly the American trappers who reached the Crow country shortly after Larocque's visit would have laughed heartily.
    • The author tells of her grant to visit New Zealand and of the similarities she discerns between the Maoris, Lakotas, and Africans, but we question where all of this is going.
    • There is a vast library of historical and cultural works about the Lakotas, many of which focus on the Ghost Dance and Wounded Knee.
    • However, on August 14 at Pryor's Creek, hundreds of Lakotas attacked Baker's camp.
    • Though Robertson refers to the Yanktons and Santees throughout the book as Lakotas, they are, in fact, Dakota people.
    • Thick smoke across the Missouri River, Grinnell assumed, meant Lakotas and Cheyennes knew of the army's presence.
  • 2mass noun The Siouan language of the Lakota, with about 6,000 speakers.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • By the end of the one-week marathon held near Stratford, Ontario, the two translation teams had produced Easter Story Selections in Lakota and Choctaw that they can now publish and distribute in their language communities.
    • Ostler has made a standout contribution to our understanding of both the events and their meaning in a work that deserves the attention of social scientists and historians as well as contemporary Lakota and non-Lakota readers.
    • The grant will offer incentives to staff at the college to learn and use the Lakota language and mentors to support them.
    • ‘Skaa is Lakota for ‘ghost,’ thank you very much,’ I said shortly.
    • Yellowhawk's wife, Johanna, who also works on the Lakota team, said, ‘Language is the foundation of any culture.’
    • Lakota fluency was based on how well they could speak, write, or use the Lakota language.
    • In short, Malachi in Hebrew means ‘Messenger of God’ and Helki in Lakota means ‘touched.’
adjectiveləˈkəʊtələˈkōdə
  • Relating to the Lakota or their language.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He is one of the most revered Lakota warriors and spiritual leaders in Native history.
    • ‘Neither,’ I said quickly, at the same time that Malachi answered, ‘She's Lakota.’
    • Don't think about being Lakota, or about us being Ojibwa, or about those that might not accept you.
    • Helki is Lakota, but she is as Indian as you or me and the rest.
    • For eight years he held together an alliance of Lakota and Northern Cheyenne tribes that pursued their old free existence.
    • Holy Rosary Catholic Church in Pine Ridge, South Dakota, designed by Bahr Vermeer Haecker Architects, is a melding of Lakota spirituality and Roman Catholic tradition, embracing each other with respect and open arms.
    • Lyle, whose heritage is part Lakota, is quieter than the other two.
    • When reservation Lakota leaders arrived in the nontreaty camps offering surrender terms from Department of the Platte commander General George Crook, Crazy Horse's following began to fragment.
    • In this collaboration between Bruchac and S.D. Nelson, of Lakota Indian descent, the boyhood story of Crazy Horse is told.
    • He looks both at what Black Elk Speaks is not (novel, biography, anthropological study, Lakota practices manual) and what it is: a work of art, spiritual literature, created by a mystic and a poet.
    • On the reservation, I rode with some Lakota people, and there was this amazing stallion that was the father of most of the horses we were riding that day.
    • Tribal leaders of North Dakota's Sioux - a name used to refer to Lakota, Nakota and Dakota tribes - have asked the school to drop the name.
    • Meanwhile, Crazy Horse and other Lakota and Northern Cheyenne war leaders planned the attack.
    • InnerChange inmates engage in spontaneous prayer throughout the day, but Lakota, Muslim, and other inmates in the general population need approval to pray together.
    • On July 28, 1865, the First and Fourth United States Volunteers and the Sixth Iowa Cavalry turned back repeated Lakota attacks.
    • I am Lakota and Mohawk, originally from the Akwesasne Mohawk Reserve.
    • There are 6,000 Lakota speakers out of a population of 20,000 but language use is very strong in some Lakota communities.
    • A final series of surrenders followed as hungry Lakota bands capitulated at military posts along the upper Missouri and Yellowstone.
    • At about 7: 00 A.M. Lakota and Northern Cheyenne warriors charged K Company's lines.
    • During a visit to Saskatchewan, Charles spent 20 minutes in Smoke's classroom in Regina, where Smoke captivated him with traditional Lakota hand games.

Origin

The name in Lakota, related to the word Dakota1.

 
 

Definition of Lakota in US English:

Lakota

nounləˈkōdə
  • 1A member of a North American people of western South Dakota.

    Also called "Teton Sioux" (see Teton)
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Although the Indians fought to a draw at Wolf Mountains, the battle ultimately proved to be a tactical victory for the army and an unrecoverable military defeat for the Lakotas and Northern Cheyennes.
    • Like the Lakotas and Cheyennes, they were horse-and-buffalo Indians.
    • Between 1866 and 1891 these men participated in several notable campaigns against Kiowas, Comanches, Cheyennes, Apaches, and Lakotas.
    • Realizing that a railroad would destroy their hunting grounds and flood the plains with settlers, the Lakotas under Sitting Bull threatened to resist it.
    • For the first time in four decades, save for the usual raids and counterraids with Blackfeet and Lakotas, the Crows had their country to themselves.
    • Heeding the Crows' report that there were Lakotas hunting on the Bighorn and short on grass for the horses, Baker and Roberts turned back early on Sunday, November 12.
    • The Cheyennes and Lakotas would have dissented, and assuredly the American trappers who reached the Crow country shortly after Larocque's visit would have laughed heartily.
    • Though Robertson refers to the Yanktons and Santees throughout the book as Lakotas, they are, in fact, Dakota people.
    • By month's end, it was apparent that the large gathering of Lakotas and Northern Cheyennes who had fought Custer had scattered and that Terry's column had little chance of striking the smaller Indian encampments.
    • Nine months earlier, on August 15, 1876, Congress had passed legislation requiring the Lakotas to relinquish their claims to all land outside the Great Sioux Reservation.
    • The author tells of her grant to visit New Zealand and of the similarities she discerns between the Maoris, Lakotas, and Africans, but we question where all of this is going.
    • He had neutralized Sitting Bull already; if Crazy Horse could be defeated, the Lakotas would be without their two most influential leaders.
    • However, on August 14 at Pryor's Creek, hundreds of Lakotas attacked Baker's camp.
    • ‘Mad Bear’ Harney deeply humiliated the Lakotas and convinced the Oglalas and Brules that the time had come to withdraw from the Platte.
    • Other Cree bands likely avoided capture because, just as the Lakotas had done in previous years, they remained camped just north of the border, crossing only in small parties in order to trade or hunt.
    • However, there are actually fourteen Indian casualties in his painting: thirteen Lakotas and one Ankara scout named Little Brave.
    • His is neither a biography of Custer nor an examination of wrongs inflicted upon the Northern Cheyennes and the Lakotas.
    • There is a vast library of historical and cultural works about the Lakotas, many of which focus on the Ghost Dance and Wounded Knee.
    • In Riding Buffaloes and Broncos, Allison Fuss Mellis focuses on three northern plains Indian tribes: Crows, Northern Cheyennes, and Lakotas.
    • Thick smoke across the Missouri River, Grinnell assumed, meant Lakotas and Cheyennes knew of the army's presence.
  • 2The Siouan language of the Lakota.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The grant will offer incentives to staff at the college to learn and use the Lakota language and mentors to support them.
    • ‘Skaa is Lakota for ‘ghost,’ thank you very much,’ I said shortly.
    • Yellowhawk's wife, Johanna, who also works on the Lakota team, said, ‘Language is the foundation of any culture.’
    • Ostler has made a standout contribution to our understanding of both the events and their meaning in a work that deserves the attention of social scientists and historians as well as contemporary Lakota and non-Lakota readers.
    • Lakota fluency was based on how well they could speak, write, or use the Lakota language.
    • By the end of the one-week marathon held near Stratford, Ontario, the two translation teams had produced Easter Story Selections in Lakota and Choctaw that they can now publish and distribute in their language communities.
    • In short, Malachi in Hebrew means ‘Messenger of God’ and Helki in Lakota means ‘touched.’
adjectiveləˈkōdə
  • Relating to the Lakota or their language.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • A final series of surrenders followed as hungry Lakota bands capitulated at military posts along the upper Missouri and Yellowstone.
    • On the reservation, I rode with some Lakota people, and there was this amazing stallion that was the father of most of the horses we were riding that day.
    • Holy Rosary Catholic Church in Pine Ridge, South Dakota, designed by Bahr Vermeer Haecker Architects, is a melding of Lakota spirituality and Roman Catholic tradition, embracing each other with respect and open arms.
    • At about 7: 00 A.M. Lakota and Northern Cheyenne warriors charged K Company's lines.
    • There are 6,000 Lakota speakers out of a population of 20,000 but language use is very strong in some Lakota communities.
    • On July 28, 1865, the First and Fourth United States Volunteers and the Sixth Iowa Cavalry turned back repeated Lakota attacks.
    • When reservation Lakota leaders arrived in the nontreaty camps offering surrender terms from Department of the Platte commander General George Crook, Crazy Horse's following began to fragment.
    • InnerChange inmates engage in spontaneous prayer throughout the day, but Lakota, Muslim, and other inmates in the general population need approval to pray together.
    • In this collaboration between Bruchac and S.D. Nelson, of Lakota Indian descent, the boyhood story of Crazy Horse is told.
    • I am Lakota and Mohawk, originally from the Akwesasne Mohawk Reserve.
    • ‘Neither,’ I said quickly, at the same time that Malachi answered, ‘She's Lakota.’
    • Tribal leaders of North Dakota's Sioux - a name used to refer to Lakota, Nakota and Dakota tribes - have asked the school to drop the name.
    • Helki is Lakota, but she is as Indian as you or me and the rest.
    • Meanwhile, Crazy Horse and other Lakota and Northern Cheyenne war leaders planned the attack.
    • He looks both at what Black Elk Speaks is not (novel, biography, anthropological study, Lakota practices manual) and what it is: a work of art, spiritual literature, created by a mystic and a poet.
    • He is one of the most revered Lakota warriors and spiritual leaders in Native history.
    • During a visit to Saskatchewan, Charles spent 20 minutes in Smoke's classroom in Regina, where Smoke captivated him with traditional Lakota hand games.
    • Lyle, whose heritage is part Lakota, is quieter than the other two.
    • For eight years he held together an alliance of Lakota and Northern Cheyenne tribes that pursued their old free existence.
    • Don't think about being Lakota, or about us being Ojibwa, or about those that might not accept you.

Origin

The name in Lakota, related to the word Dakota.

 
 
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