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Lakhota Dictionary

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Lakhota pos English
wažáže N

1. a band of the Blackfeet Lakota that may mean ~wash"

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thíŋ záptaŋ N

1. a band of the Blackfeet Lakotas whose name means ~five lodges."

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sihásapaȟča N

1. a band of the Blackfeet Lakotas whose name means ~real Blackfeet."

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wamnúǧa oʾíŋ N

1. a band of the Blackfeet Lakotas whose name means ~shell earring."

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khaŋǧíšuŋ pégnaka N

1. a band of the Blackfeet Lakotas whose name means ~wears crow feathers in the hair."

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wíštelkhiyA V

1. to be bashful towards someone, in a special sense of holding an avoidance attitude of high respect towards him or her (e.g. the attitude of mothers and sons-in law as prescribed by traditional Lakota kinship).

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kilákhota V

1. to become a Lakota again, as one who tried to assimilate into white society but, dissatisfied, returns to Lakota ways.

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sihásapa N.

1. Blackfeet Sioux, one of the seven bands of Lakotas or Teton Sioux.

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ptehíŋčala čhaŋnúŋpa N.

1. buffalo calf pipe, brought to the Lakotas by White Buffalo Calf Woman.

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sičháŋǧu N.

1. Burnt Thighs or Brule Sioux, one of the seven bands of Lakotas or Teton Sioux; Rosebud Sioux

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thóka N

1. enemy, a tribe of Indians, or a member of such a tribe, other than the Lakotas.

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siŋkphéthawote N.

1. flagroot, bitterroot, calamus, a medicine used by the Lakotas use for cramps and other ailments.

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lakhólyakel ADJ

1. in the Lakota way or manner.

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yuwípi N

1. a Lakota ceremony, described by ED as a ~practice of binding and tying a diviner who is said to be untied by supernatural help and then he foretells the future or tells where to find a lost thing."

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iktómi N

2. the Lakota trickster

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wičhíyela N

1. Lakotas' name for the Yanktons and Yanktonnais.

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yuwípi wičhašá N

1. a religious specialist among the Lakotas who practices yuwipi.

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čhaŋnúŋpawakhaŋ N.

1. sacred pipe of the Lakotas.

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Itázipčho N

1. Sans Arc Sioux, literally "no bows", one of the seven bands of the Lakota

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lakólʾiya V

1. to speak Lakota, in the Lakota way of speaking.

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lakhóta N

2. the Teton or western division of the Sioux, Lakota.

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thíthuŋwaŋ N

1. Teton Sioux or Lakotas.

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