thumb|Sioux people's and allies' protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline in 2016-17 were often framed as a fight against wasi'chu interests. In modern usage, the word implies colonialist greed and corporate power.
thumb|Sioux people's and allies' protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline in 2016-17 were often framed as a fight against wasi'chu interests. In modern usage, the word implies colonialist greed and corporate power.
'''Wasi'chu is a loanword from the Sioux language (wašíču or waṡicu''' using different Lakota and Dakota language orthographies) which means a non-Indigenous person, particularly a white person, often with a disparaging meaning.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).