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Meanings of Siouan in English

Portuguese
sioux
Catalan
siú
Spanish
siux

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.

sioux
Spanish
lengua sioux

A family of North American Indian languages spoken by the Sioux.

lengua sioux
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Usage of Siouan in English
1
Certain Siouan Indians think: The stars are all deceased men.
The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought / Studies of the Activit...
2
Muskhogean tribes were potters, but Siouan tribes, as a rule, in all the Mississippi drainage were not.
The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
3
The data also support both the Macro-Siouan hypothesis and a relatively recent intrusion of Northern Iroquoians into the Northeast.
Pubmed
4
A large amount of gene flow has occurred between Siouan-and Algonquian-speaking groups, probably due to an Algonquian intrusion into the Northeast.
Pubmed
5
Descended mainly from Cheraw and related Siouan speakers, the Lumbee have occupied what is now Robeson County since the eighteenth century.
Spider bones: a novel
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In our Siouan legends and traditions these two are preeminent, as handed down from the most ancient time and persisting to the last.
The Soul of the Indian: An Interpretation
Translations for Siouan
Portuguese
sioux
Catalan
siúsioux
Siouan through the time