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Definition of Eastern sioux
1. Noun. A member of the eastern branch of the Sioux.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Eastern Sioux
Literary usage of Eastern sioux
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Narrative of an Expedition to the Source of St. Peter's River, Lake by William Hypolitus Keating, Stephen Harriman Long, Thomas Say, Lewis David von Schweinitz, James Edward Colhoun, Joseph Lovell (1824)
"... and not as recently discovered; and more especially from the observation of
la Harpe, that the eastern Sioux having complained of the situation of the ..."
2. Concise History of the State of Minnesota by Edward Duffield Neill (1887)
"... came to the Fort, who had been robbed by some of the eastern Sioux, ...
of- the eastern Sioux came to the fort, and one of their chief men, ..."
3. Societies of the Plains Indians by Clark Wissler (1916)
"The impression received from my eastern sioux informants is somewhat differ- •ent.
According to Whale (Santee), the person giving the dance had had a vision ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Soon after this period the eastern Sioux definitively abandoned the Mille Lac
and Leech Lake country to their enemies the Ojibwa, with whom the hereditary ..."
5. The Ghost-dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890 by James Mooney (1896)
"The eastern Sioux are now far advanced toward civilization through the efforts
of teachers and missionaries ..."
6. Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico V. 2/4 by Frederick Webb Hodge (2003)
"In general customs and beliefs they resemble the other divisions of the eastern
Sioux. (See Dakota.) their lands in Iowa and Minnesota, retaining as a ..."
7. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1904)
"The eastern Sioux have been civilized and Christianized for a generation.
The western bands are only now beginning to accept the white man's road, ..."
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