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Words from the Sioux language, including Dakota and Lakota. Pages in category "Lakota words and phrases" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total.
Ohunka (Lakota: false, untrue, [1] plural ohunkakan) is a traditional Sioux evening story. They usually feature mythological characters like Iktomi or Iya together with humans. . The storyteller's skill required the combination of episodes and keeping the audience interested.
Frederic Remington's The Parley, 1903. The word "how" is a pop culture anglicization of the Lakota word háu, a Lakota language greeting by men to men. [1]The term how is often found in stereotypical and outdated depictions of Native Americans, made by non-Natives, in some Hollywood movies and various novels, e.g. those of James Fenimore Cooper or Karl May.
Lakota (Lakȟótiyapi [laˈkˣɔtɪjapɪ]), also referred to as Lakhota, Teton or Teton Sioux, is a Siouan language spoken by the Lakota people of the Sioux tribes. Lakota is mutually intelligible with the two dialects of the Dakota language, especially Western Dakota, and is one of the three major varieties of the Sioux language.
Dennis Banks cofounded the American Indian Movement and a documentary about him is also called A Good Day to Die. [5] Another author describes it as the ending of a Lakota prayer. [6] Regarding the war cry "today is a good day to die", most presume the now-popular statement refers to patriotic sentiment.
Mitákuye Oyás’iŋ (All Are Related) is a phrase from the Lakota language. It reflects the world view of interconnectedness held by the Lakota people of North America. [1] This concept and phrase is expressed in many Yankton Sioux prayers, [2] as well as by ceremonial people in other Lakota communities. [3] [4]
That the word's underlying meaning is "fat-taker" or "greedy" is today affirmed by many Sioux people themselves, either as the word's origin [5] or as a modern evolution of the meaning. [6] For example, academic and campaigner Nick Estes writes "the highest insult in Lakota is to be greedy, to be wasicu".
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Lakota on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Lakota in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.