Lakota

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1. A member of a Native American tribe, also known as the Sioux, now living primarily on the Rosebud, Pine Ridge, Lower Brule, Standing Rock and Cheyenne River Reservations.

   ‘He wore an eagle feather from the time he was sixteen. He counted coup many times on La-Cotahs and Cut Arms’.

   1951, Dorothy M. Johnson, Warrior's Exile; in Indian Country, London: Corgi, 1961, page 60

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1. The language spoken by the Lakota.

   This park’s strange and beautiful rock formations were formed by the Yellowstone River and various streams that have cut through the rock over millions of years, carving out hoodoos, spires and caprocks. The name Makoshika comes from a Lakota word for badlands.

   2018 July 17, Autumn Spanne, “Check out these crazy rock formations across the United States”, in CNN

2. A city in Kossuth County, Iowa.
3. A small city, the county seat of Nelson County, North Dakota, United States.