English > Sioux: 1 sense > noun 1, person | Meaning | 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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| Synonym | Siouan |
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| Instances | Crazy Horse, Tashunca-Uitco | A chief of the Sioux who resisted the invasion of the Black Hills and joined Sitting Bull in the defeat of General Custer at Little Bighorn (1849-1877) |
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| Rain-in-the-Face | A chief of the Sioux |
| Narrower | Biloxi | A member of the Siouan people of southeastern Mississippi |
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| Catawba | A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Carolinas |
| Crow | A member of the Siouan people formerly living in eastern Montana |
| Dakota | A member of the Siouan people of the northern Mississippi valley |
| Dhegiha | Any member of a Siouan people speaking one of the Dhegiha languages |
| Hidatsa, Gros Ventre | A member of the Sioux people formerly inhabiting an area along the Missouri river in western North Dakota |
| Iowa, Ioway | A member of the Siouan people formerly living in Iowa and Minnesota and Missouri |
| Missouri | A member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the valley of the Missouri river in Missouri |
| Ofo | A member of the Siouan people living in the Yazoo river valley in Mississippi |
| Oto, Otoe | A member of the Siouan people inhabiting the valleys of the Platte and Missouri rivers in Nebraska |
| Santee, Santee Sioux, Santee Dakota, Eastern Sioux | A member of the eastern branch of the Sioux |
| Teton, Lakota, Teton Sioux, Teton Dakota | A member of the large western branch of Sioux people which was made up of several groups that lived on the plains |
| Tutelo | A member of the Siouan people of Virginia and North Carolina |
| Winnebago | A member of the Siouan-speaking people formerly living in eastern Wisconsin south of Green Bay |
| Broader | Plains Indian, Buffalo Indian | A member of one of the tribes of American Indians who lived a nomadic life following the buffalo in the Great Plains of North America |
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| Spanish | sioux, Sioux, siux |
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| Catalan | sioux, siú, siux |
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| Adjectives | Siouan | of or relating to the Sioux people or their language and culture |
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