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Kutenai
Kutenai (Ktunaxa, Kootenai) are an Indigenous people of southeastern British Columbia, Idaho, and Montana, speaking a language isolate, with four Canadian First Nations, two US tribes, and no treaty yet secured.
Kvens
Kvens (kvener, Norwegian Finns) are a Finnish-descended national minority of Norway, long settled in Troms and Finnmark; recognized as a national minority in 1998, with the closely Finnish-related Kven language recognized as its own minority language in 2005 and today severely endangered.
Kwakwaka'wakw
The Kwakwaka'wakw, long known as the Kwakiutl, are Indigenous peoples of northern Vancouver Island and the mainland coast of British Columbia, centered on the potlatch, a ceremonial feast that served as their governance.
Kwame
Kwame is the Akan day name for a male born on Saturday (female form Ama), part of Ghana's deity-based weekday naming system; variants include Kwamena, Kwamina, Kwami, and Kouamé, and its best-known bearer is Kwame Nkrumah.
Kyiv pogrom (1881)
The Kyiv pogrom was an anti-Jewish riot in Kiev, Russian Empire, on May 8, 1881, part of the pogrom wave following Tsar Alexander II's assassination.
Kyiv pogroms (1919)
The Kyiv pogroms of 1919 were anti-Jewish attacks during the Russian Civil War, including an October pogrom by Volunteer Army soldiers that killed about 300 people.
Kyrgyz people (кыргыздар)
The Kyrgyz people (кыргыздар), also known as Kirgiz or Kirghiz, are a Turkic ethnic group of Central Asia, the titular majority of Kyrgyzstan and historically nomadic pastoralists.
La Raza
La Raza ("the race," also "the people") is a Spanish term for Hispanophone populations as a mixed people, from Vasconcelos's La Raza Cósmica (1925); central to Chicano identity, La Raza Unida Party, and the Chicago newspaper La Raza.
Labour Day
Labour Day (Labor Day, International Workers' Day) is a workers' holiday on May 1 in about 172 countries, rooted in the 1886 eight-hour strike and Haymarket affair; the US and Canada observe it the first Monday of September since 1894, and New Zealand, Australia, and Japan use other dates.
Lacanianism
Lacanianism is the psychoanalytic school founded by Jacques Lacan (1901–1981), rereading Freud through structural linguistics: the unconscious structured like a language, the Imaginary-Symbolic-Real registers, objet petit a, and institutions such as the École Freudienne de Paris.
Lace curtain and shanty Irish
Lace curtain and shanty Irish: paired American class labels for Irish Americans, coined in the 1890s, dividing a piano-and-parlor middle class from poor one-room-cabin immigrants; later scholarship finds the divide caricatured.
Lad culture
Lad culture, or laddism, is a hegemonic student masculinity in UK universities linked to binge drinking, sexist banter, sport, and harassment, studied since the 1990s and addressed by the 2016 UUK Changing the Culture report.
Ladies of Llangollen
Ladies of Llangollen: Lady Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby, Anglo-Irish women who eloped in 1778 and lived together nearly fifty years at Plas Newydd, Wales, as a celebrated same-sex couple.
Lady
Lady: English word for a woman, from Old English hlæfdige (loaf-kneader), female counterpart of lord; a British peerage title and, in modern usage, a polite or contested alternative to woman.
Lady Amanda Ellingworth
Lady Amanda Ellingworth, British voluntary-sector executive and former social worker; chaired Plan International UK (from 2016) and The Guinness Partnership; GOSH non-executive director 2018-2024.
Lady Annabel Goldsmith
Lady Annabel Goldsmith (1934-2025), born Lady Annabel Vane-Tempest-Stewart, English socialite, daughter of the 8th Marquess of Londonderry, namesake of Annabel's nightclub, wife of Mark Birley then Sir James Goldsmith, mother of Jemima, Zac, and Ben Goldsmith.
Lady Eliza Spencer
Lady Eliza Victoria Spencer, British model and twin sister of Lady Amelia Spencer, daughter of the 9th Earl Spencer and Victoria Lockwood, niece of Diana, Princess of Wales; Storm Management model, Aspinal campaign face, engaged to Channing Millerd, Lala V rosé founder.
Lady Sarah McCorquodale
Lady Sarah McCorquodale (Elizabeth Sarah Lavinia McCorquodale, born 1955) is the eldest sister of Diana, Princess of Wales, co-executor of her will, former Memorial Fund president, and High Sheriff of Lincolnshire 2009.
Lady Sarah Spencer-Churchill
Lady Sarah Spencer-Churchill, also known as Lady Sarah Burgos, was a British-born socialite and philanthropist, eldest daughter of the 10th Duke of Marlborough and a granddaughter of Consuelo Vanderbilt.
Lakota people
The Lakota are the westernmost division of the Sioux-speaking peoples and the largest of its three language groups, known for Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, and Red Cloud.
Lalla Lamia Al Solh (لامية السلح)
Lalla Lamia Al Solh (لامية السلح), Lebanese-born Moroccan princess, daughter of Riad Al Solh; wife of Prince Moulay Abdallah (married November 1961); president of OAPAM for the blind in Morocco since 1967.
Lambda Chi Alpha
Lambda Chi Alpha (ΛΧΑ), founded 1909 at Boston University by Warren A. Cole, is an international social college fraternity with about 185 chapters and 300,000 members, known for abolishing pledging in 1972 and for its Theta Kappa Nu merger.
Lana Tisdel
Lana Tisdel, Falls City, Nebraska woman, girlfriend of Brandon Teena; dated him December 1993, testified at John Lotter's murder trial, and settled a lawsuit over her portrayal in Boys Don't Cry.
Landed gentry
Landed gentry: untitled British and Irish landowning families, the lesser nobility below the peerage, graded as knights, esquires, and gentlemen, who held roughly half the land in some counties and dominated local government until their decline after the 1870s.
Landless Workers' Movement
The Landless Workers' Movement (Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra, MST), founded in Brazil in 1984, occupies idle farmland, camps, and settles families under the 1988 Constitution's social-function doctrine, with 350,000+ families settled.
Lao people (ຄົນລາວ)
Lao people (ຄົນລາວ), Tai-speaking group on both sides of the Mekong: ethnic Lao are ~30% of Laos, while most Thai Northeasterners (Isan) are of Lao ethnicity. Historic Lan Xang kingdom, 1904 Siamese reclassification, and a 1975–1980s diaspora distinguish the group.
Larry Fortensky
Larry Fortensky, American construction worker and Teamsters member, was Elizabeth Taylor's seventh and final husband; they met at the Betty Ford Center in 1988, married at Neverland Ranch in 1991, divorced in 1996, and he died in July 2016.
LaSheena Weekly
LaSheena Weekly is a Chicago activist, mother of slain drill rapper FBG Duck (Carlton Weekly), administrator of his estate, and plaintiff in wrongful-death litigation against Lil Durk, OTF, and King Von's estate.
Lasse Lund
Lasse Lund (born 1992) is a Finnish-Norwegian dual citizen and viral social media figure who says he grew up alone on Mumbai's streets; his mother disputes the account, and Finland's foreign ministry admits consular failings.
Latchkey kid
Latchkey kid, also latchkey child, is a school-age child home alone after school because parents work. Term recorded from 1944-45 wartime usage; label for Generation X; research finds few consistent harms.