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  • noun Plural form of Dacotah.

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  • The Dacotahs are a large and powerful nation of Indians, distinct in their manners, language, habits, and opinions, from the Chippewas, Sauks, Foxes, and Naheawak or Killsteno, as well as from all nations of the Algonquia stock.

    Archive 2005-12-01 Trish Short Lewis 2005

  • "The Dacotahs are a large and powerful nation of Indians, distinct in their manners, language, habits, and opinions, from the Chippewas, Sauks, Foxes, and Naheawak or Kilisteno, as well as from all nations of the Algonquin stock.

    Minnesota and Dacotah: in letters descriptive of a tour through the North-west, in the autumn of 1856. With information relative to public lands, Christopher Columbus 1857

  • The most important of these, for my story, was the great stretch of the High Plains in what is now Montana, Wyoming, and the Dacotahs; to east and north it was bounded by the Missouri river, along which the steamboats carried the Western traffic to the foot of the Rockies, and to the south by the railroad from Omaha to Cheyenne and the Great Salt Lake.

    Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

  • The most important of these, for my story, was the great stretch of the High Plains in what is now Montana, Wyoming, and the Dacotahs; to east and north it was bounded by the Missouri river, along which the steamboats carried the Western traffic to the foot of the Rockies, and to the south by the railroad from Omaha to Cheyenne and the Great Salt Lake.

    Flashman And The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982

  • The most important of these, for my story, was the great stretch of the High Plains in what is now Montana, Wyoming, and the Dacotahs; to east and north it was bounded by the Missouri river, along which the steamboats carried the Western traffic to the foot of the Rockies, and to the south by the railroad from Omaha to Cheyenne and the Great Salt Lake.

    Flashman and The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982

  • North America, such as Mr. Longfellow's arrow-maker used to work at in the land of the Dacotahs, and which, in the wild northern states of

    Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern Edward Burnett Tylor

  • A number belonging to the Tobacco Nation eventually reached the upper waters of the Mississippi where they met the Sioux, or Dacotahs, a fierce nation belonging to a family quite distinct from the Algonquins and Iroquois, and generally found wandering between the head-waters of Lake Superior and the Falls of St. Anthony.

    Canada J. G. Bourinot

  • The majority of the tribes in Manitoba and the Northwest -- the Crees and Blackfeet -- belong to the Algonquin race, and the Assiniboines or Stonies, to the Dacotahs or Sioux, now only found on the other side of the frontier.

    Canada J. G. Bourinot

  • This is not the way we have been treated before; this is not according to our customs; for among Dacotahs, chiefs and braves go to council together.

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

  • Once more we were steaming westward toward the land of the Dacotahs.

    The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 1, October, 1884 Various

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