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Definition of Ogalala
1. 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.
Generic synonyms: Lakota, Teton, Teton Dakota, Teton Sioux
Specialized synonyms: Red Cloud
2. Noun. A Siouan language spoken by the Oglala.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ogalala
Literary usage of Ogalala
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletin (1901)
"The ogalala* Indians of Pine Ridge Reservation are Teton or ... bent into shape
and fastened when '* The name ogalala is from o (la) "many" and ..."
2. Pictographs of the North American Indians: A Preliminary Paper by Garrick Mallery, James Gilchrist Swan (1886)
"All ogalala roster: Big-Road and band 174 LIII.—An O^alala roster: Low-Dog and
baud 174 LIV.—Au ogalala roster: Tlic Bear Spares-him and hand 174 LV. ..."
3. Laws of the Territory of Idaho by Idaho (Ter.) (1864)
"... be and the same is hereby created a county, to be known as ogalala county,
to-wit: All that portion of Idaho territory situated south of the forty-fifth ..."
4. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1888)
"... in which each year is marked by a pictograph of some distinctive event.
Pictures of each of eighty-four totemic personal names of the ogalala roster ..."
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