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a member of a group of North American Indian peoples who spoke a Siouan language and who ranged from Lake Michigan to the Rocky Mountains

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The most long-lasting example of Indian engagement at a corn palace began in 1948, when the city hired Oscar Howe, a Nakota painter, to design murals for the building.
Other contributors include, Nelda Schrupp, a member of the Pheasant Rump Nakota First Nation and a nationally know artist, as well as personnel from the university departments that house the collections.
In America's northern Plains, the Assiniboine tribe has shrunk to just 50 living members in Montana who are fluent in its language, Nakota. The Assiniboine separated from the Sioux some 400 years ago, developing its own linguistic and cultural forms, according to Raymond DeMallie, an Indiana University anthropology professor.
That's the word members of the Native American Nakota tribe use for "horse." Neil, Alicia, and their friends learn about horsemanship, or how to care for the horses and even how to ride them!
The Dakota Peoples--A History of the Dakota, Lakota and Nakota through 1863.
Indigenous' fifth release since 1998 (and first full-length since their single major label effort, Circle, in 2003) finds Nakota guitarist/lead vocalist Mato Nanji with a mostly new band following the departure of siblings Pte (bass) and Wanbdi (drums and vocals) to work on other projects.
Salish, Kootenai, Blackfeet, Little Shell Chippewa, Cree, Chippewa, Gros Ventre, Crow, Northern Cheyenne, Nakota, and Assiniboine (Fort Belknap and Fort Peck) cultures and languages are quite distinct from one another, so even schools on or near reservations will be teaching about tribal cultures that are different from their own.
Hayley Perry Shares her lunch With her dogs Nakota And Nakoma Picture, Jeremy Pardoe' James Dad from Walsall with a tame boxer dog and (right) Lilly, the bull mastif waits to go into the ring
Given that two of the three authors of this article are Dakota and all have worked with Dakota men, our focus is on Dakota (in the interest of clarity and flow, the general term Dakota will be used for Dakota, Lakota, and Nakota tribes) fathers.
She used her fluency in Lakota, Nakota and Dakota to translate ethnographic texts and teach the languages to anthropology students.
The Sioux became the Lakota, Dakota and Nakota but, if they are looked at linguistically, they are of one group.
For the past decade, several Missouri-basin tribes--the Lakota, Nakota, and Dakota, the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara, and the Omaha--have gathered as the Intertribal Council On Utility Policy (Intertribal COUP) to formulate energy and utility policy recommendations, beginning with how best to utilize the hard-won 20-year contract for a WAPA allocation of about 4 percent (65 megawatts) of the river's hydropower capacity.