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Definition of Sioux
1. 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
Derivative terms: Siouan
Definition of Sioux
1. n. sing. & pl. See Dakotas.
Definition of Sioux
1. Proper noun. Name applied to various formerly nomadic Native American tribes of the North American Great Plains. ¹
2. Proper noun. The group of languages spoken by the Sioux. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Sioux
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Sioux
Literary usage of Sioux
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1908)
"Washington, District of Columbia, for the the sioux treaty fund, referred to in
the eaid bill and answer, appropriated for the uses of the sioux tribe of ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"About the same time missions were established among the sioux in North and South
... In 1834 the great work of the Congregational Church among the sioux was ..."
3. Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties by Charles Joseph Kappler (1904)
"Conference Between the United States of America and the sioux Nation of Indians.
... That the sioux Nation grants unto the United States for the purpose of ..."
4. United States Statutes at Large: Containing the Laws and Concurrent by United States (1868)
"ARTICLE I. The Lower Brûlé band of Dakota or sioux Indians, Jurisdiction represented
in council, hereby acknowledge themselves to be subject to the ..."
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