Native American and First Nations ethnic group.
A member of a group of North American Indian peoples who spoke a Siouan language and who ranged from Lake Michigan to the Rocky Mountains.
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Examples for "Siouan "
1 Certain Siouan Indians think: The stars are all deceased men.
2 Muskhogean tribes were potters, but Siouan tribes, as a rule, in all the Mississippi drainage were not.
3 The data also support both the Macro - Siouan hypothesis and a relatively recent intrusion of Northern Iroquoians into the Northeast.
4 A large amount of gene flow has occurred between Siouan - and Algonquian-speaking groups, probably due to an Algonquian intrusion into the Northeast.
5 Descended mainly from Cheraw and related Siouan speakers, the Lumbee have occupied what is now Robeson County since the eighteenth century.
Siouan language spoken by the Sioux in the United States and Canada.
1 Within the instant the entire party of the Sioux was in confusion.
2 The Oglala Sioux Nation did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
3 There were plenty of Sioux Indians living in the vicinity of Shakopee.
4 He lost a fight with the Sioux Indians in the nineteenth century.
5 Generosity is a trait that is highly developed in the Sioux woman.
6 They might readily have passed in the darkness for young Sioux warriors.
7 It was after this that the Sioux moved to the Mississippi river.
8 The Presbyterians have lately commenced a work among the Chippewas and Sioux .
9 But the Sioux had stopped and was looking intently at the boy.
10 They came from Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sioux Falls.
11 Shout after shout went up on the Sioux side of the camp.
12 The Sioux was sure to identify it if it reached his ears.
13 Indians are sly, and the Sioux are the slyest of them all.
14 There was, in fact, a great division of opinion among the Sioux .
15 The Sioux followed like crazy wolves, tomahawking the tired and slow ones.
16 Nearly all of the Indians who came were Sioux and fine looking.
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