plural Nakota also Nakotas
: a member of a First Nations people originally of the Great Plains between the upper Missouri and middle Saskatchewan rivers : assiniboine
—used as a self-designation
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Being Nakota Sioux, Stroemer marked her first New York Fashion Week this season in a special way—by walking for the Indigenous designer Kayla Lookinghorse.
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Christian Allaire, Vogue, 10 Oct. 2024
Chief Looking Horse is the spiritual leader of the Lakota, Dakota, and the Nakota Oyate in South Dakota and the 19th keeper of the sacred White Buffalo Calf Woman Pipe and Bundle.
—Amy Beth Hanson and Mead Gruver, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 June 2024
But the organization has had some success and is working with the Blackfeet reservation, the Salish and Kootenai tribes on the Flathead reservation, and the Nakota and Gros Ventre tribes at Fort Belknap.
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 Apr. 2024
Growing up on the rural Alexis Nakota Sioux Nation reserve in Alberta, Canada, Alexis had plenty of opportunities to develop her acting chops.
—Kate Nelson, ELLE, 1 Aug. 2023
Selena Not Afraid, a 16-year-old member of two Indian nations, the Crow and Nakota, was last seen on New Year’s Day 2020 at the I-90 rest stop between Billings and Hardin, Montana.
—NBC News, 27 Aug. 2021
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Christian Allaire, Vogue, 10 Oct. 2024
Chief Looking Horse is the spiritual leader of the Lakota, Dakota, and the Nakota Oyate in South Dakota and the 19th keeper of the sacred White Buffalo Calf Woman Pipe and Bundle.
—Amy Beth Hanson and Mead Gruver, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 June 2024
But the organization has had some success and is working with the Blackfeet reservation, the Salish and Kootenai tribes on the Flathead reservation, and the Nakota and Gros Ventre tribes at Fort Belknap.
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 Apr. 2024
Growing up on the rural Alexis Nakota Sioux Nation reserve in Alberta, Canada, Alexis had plenty of opportunities to develop her acting chops.
—Kate Nelson, ELLE, 1 Aug. 2023
Selena Not Afraid, a 16-year-old member of two Indian nations, the Crow and Nakota, was last seen on New Year’s Day 2020 at the I-90 rest stop between Billings and Hardin, Montana.
—NBC News, 27 Aug. 2021
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“Nakota.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Nakota. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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