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Wakan Thanka

Wakan Thanka is the alternative form of Wakan Tanka.

Meaning of Wakan Tanka

Proper noun

Wakan Tanka

  1. The Great Spirit in Lakota religious and spiritual belief.

Questions about Wakan Thanka

What is Wakan Thanka the alternative form of?
Wakan Thanka is the alternative form of Wakan Tanka.

Words near Wakan Thanka in the dictionary

  1. Wakamba
  2. wakame
  3. wakamezake
  4. wakan
  5. Wakan Tanka
  6. Wakan Thanka
  7. Wakana
  8. Wakanda
  9. Wakandan
  10. Wakarusa
  11. wakas

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Wakan Thanka (page history and authors); Wakan Tanka (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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