Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of a Native American people constituting a subdivision of the Lakota, formerly inhabiting the Black Hills region of western South Dakota, with a present-day population in southwest South Dakota.
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- noun a Siouan language spoken by the Oglala
- noun a member of the Siouan people who constituted a division of the Teton Sioux and who formerly inhabited the Black Hills of western South Dakota
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Examples
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They don't want to hear that there is a full-blown college called the Oglala Lakota College with branches in nearly every community.
Tim Giago: SuAnne Died Young, but Her Legacy Lives On Tim Giago 2011
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They don't want to hear that there is a full-blown college called the Oglala Lakota College with branches in nearly every community.
Tim Giago: SuAnne Died Young, but Her Legacy Lives On Tim Giago 2011
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'' Oglala '' (CM-4); tug '' Sotoyomo '' (YT-9); and Floating Drydock Number 2.
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'' Oglala '' (CM-4); tug '' Sotoyomo '' (YT-9); and Floating Drydock Number 2.
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The Oglala medicine man Black Elk once said that truth comes in two pure forms: through tears and through laughter.
The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010
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If he is healed and decides to run for the presidency of the Oglala Sioux Tribe again, I will be his biggest cheerleader and supporter, because the Lakota need a leader with vision and courage.
Tim Giago: The Enigma of American Indian Movement Leader Russell Means Tim Giago 2011
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It could have visited Little Wound School at Kyle or Crazy Horse School at Wanbli, or it could have visited the campus of Oglala Lakota College and talked to Tom Shortbull and of the many things he is achieving and is hoping to achieve with this great college.
Tim Giago: ABC News: Reflecting on the Obvious at Pine Ridge Tim Giago 2011
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Paul Iron Cloud would be only too happy to show NBC what the Oglala Lakota Housing Authority is trying to accomplish and there are doctors and nurses that would love to show them around the new and improved hospital facilities.
Tim Giago: ABC News: Reflecting on the Obvious at Pine Ridge Tim Giago 2011
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To assure us that interest in abstract patterning continues, there's the whimsical, Escher-like "Horn Spoon" (2009) in which artist Kevin Pourier (Oglala Lakota, b. 1958) beautifully conjures up the relationship between contemporary and traditional design and materials, by alternating mother-of-pearl and buffalo horn to form a geometric pattern of modern sensibility.
The Art Behind the Narrative Tom L. Freudenheim 2011
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Many years ago Chief Fools Crow of the Oglala said of Russell Means and of me, "When we look at our future we have to look to Lakota like Russell Means and Tim Giago."
Tim Giago: The Enigma of American Indian Movement Leader Russell Means Tim Giago 2011
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