Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of a Native American people constituting a subdivision of the Lakota, formerly inhabiting an area from the Black Hills to the Platte River, with a present-day population in west-central South Dakota.
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Examples
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Kicking Bear, a Miniconjou Teton Lakota, made a pilgrimage to Nevada to learn about this new "religion".
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Joseph White Bull, a Miniconjou, recalled that the battle “lasted all day, but when it was over ‘Three Stars’ Crook took his troops and hit the trail back to his base.”
Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011
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Together with Short Bull, another Miniconjou mystic, they gave another interpretation, choosing to disregard Wovoka's anti-violence and emphasizing the possible elimination of the whites.
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Joseph White Bull, a Miniconjou, recalled that the battle “lasted all day, but when it was over ‘Three Stars’ Crook took his troops and hit the trail back to his base.”
Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011
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In August 1854, a young Miniconjou Sioux warrior named High Forehead, summering with his tribesmen outside Fort Laramie, shot a stray cow that had wandered into their camp and according to the Indians run amok.
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010
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In August 1854, a young Miniconjou Sioux warrior named High Forehead, summering with his tribesmen outside Fort Laramie, shot a stray cow that had wandered into their camp and according to the Indians run amok.
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010
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His growing political power was instrumental in preventing the Ghost Dance cult from spreading to Comanches and Kiowas—the same cult that led to the infamous massacre of Miniconjou Sioux at Wounded Knee in South Dakota in 1890—for which he received notice in the national press.
EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010
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The soldier chief on the bluff was left with a few warriors watching him, while the rest of the Indians streamed through the camp to the place of new danger across from the ford by the Miniconjou camp.
THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007
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The Cheyenne and Sioux warriors crossed the Little Horn at the Miniconjou ford, and also at the lower end, by the Cheyenne lodges.
THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007
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Three Geese felt like leaving—he thought he might go live with his brother in the Miniconjou band.
The Berrybender Narratives Larry McMurtry 2004
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