Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Belonging or relating to the Dakotas or Sioux, an Indian people of the northwestern United States.
  • Of or pertaining to Dakota, a former Territory in the northern part of the United States, or to North Dakota or South Dakota, into which it was divided by act of February 22d, 1889. The same act provided for the admission of these two parts as States into the Union.
  • noun An inhabitant of Dakota, or of North or South Dakota.

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  • We would then at least have a graphic of Dakota Fanning on our TVs this morning with running negative factoids about her (Kathy Griffith set off a firestorm when she suggested at Oscars that Fanning was in rehab), and some analysis of whether that would help to blue out either of the dakotan states or the building in NYC.

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  • Froke and Jason Huska, dean of students at Vermillion High School … yankton press amp; dakotan gt; community gt; usd vermillion school ...

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