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Lakota

American  
[luh-koh-tuh] / ləˈkoʊ tə /
Or Lakhota

noun

  1. another name for Teton.


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Airbus is also working on an unmanned version of the H145 helicopter, known as the Lakota in the United States, for the US Navy, a major customer for the conventional model.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

Sitting Bull embodied Lakota and Cheyenne resistance to reservation life.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

His breakthrough came in 1990 when he played Kicking Bird, a Lakota medicine man, in Dances With Wolves.

From BBC • Sep. 1, 2025

He struck on an idea to carve representations of the American West into the granite pinnacles of the Central Black Hills: The Lakota leader Red Cloud, Lewis and Clark, George Armstrong Custer.

From Slate • Mar. 13, 2025

He could see them, hundreds of Lakota and Cheyenne men.

From "In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse" by Joseph Marshall III