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Definition of Siouan
1. Adjective. Of or relating to the Sioux people or their language and culture.
2. Noun. 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.
Generic synonyms: Buffalo Indian, Plains Indian
Specialized synonyms: Biloxi, Catawba, Crow, Dakota, Dhegiha, Gros Ventre, Hidatsa, Iowa, Ioway, Missouri, Ofo, Oto, Otoe, Eastern Sioux, Santee, Santee Dakota, Santee Sioux, Lakota, Teton, Teton Dakota, Teton Sioux, Tutelo, Winnebago
Specialized synonyms: Crazy Horse, Tashunca-uitco, Rain-in-the-face
3. Noun. A family of North American Indian languages spoken by the Sioux.
Generic synonyms: American Indian, American-indian Language, Amerind, Amerindian Language, Indian
Specialized synonyms: Biloxi, Catawba, Chiwere, Crow, Dakota, Dhegiha, Gros Ventre, Hidatsa, Hunkpapa, Ofo, Ogalala, Oglala, Santee, Tutelo, Winnebago
Definition of Siouan
1. Adjective. Of or relating to the Sioux people, culture or languages. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Siouan
Literary usage of Siouan
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Anthropologist by American Anthropological Association, American Ethnological Society (1892)
"The present paper is one of the results of original investigation among tribes
of the Siouan family from to, and from to the present time. ..."
2. Native Cemeteries and Forms of Burial East of the Mississippi by David Ives Bushnell (1920)
"Siouan GROUPS The piedmont region of Virginia, and southward, ... This was the
territory of the Monacan, a Siouan people who were ever enemies of the ..."
3. Native Cemeteries and Forms of Burial East of the Mississippi by David Ives Bushnell (1920)
"Siouan GROUPS The piedmont region of Virginia, and southward, ... This was the
territory of the Monacan, a Siouan people who were ever enemies of the ..."
4. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1890)
"By a reference to the author's paper on "The Comparative Phonology of Four Siouan
Languages," read at the Montreal meeting of 1882 and published in full ..."
5. A Supplement to A Guide to Manuscripts Relating to the American Indian in by Daythal Kendall, John F. Freeman (1982)
"Analysis of comparative Siouan dialects of Canada; Feb. 8, 1965. TDS 3 pp. 4737.
Sioux; 1900, nd 5 photographs, 3 postal cards. ..."
6. The Mythology of All Races by Louis Herbert Gray, George Foot Moore, John Arnott MacCulloch (1916)
"The second Mandan cycle evidently belongs to the more properly Siouan version of
the demiurgic pair. The Lord of Life created the First Man, who formed the ..."
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