Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A large North American Indian language family spoken from Lake Michigan to the Rocky Mountains and southward to Arkansas as well as in South Carolina.
- noun A member of a Siouan-speaking people.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to the Sioux or Dakotas; Dakotan.
- noun The linguistic stock which embraces the Siouan languages and includes the languages of the Sioux or Dakota, Hidatsa, Crow, Mandan, Omaha, Ponca, Osage, Winnebago, Kansa, Quapaw, Iowa, Oto, Missouri, Biloxi, Tutelo, and Catawba.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or relating to the
Sioux people, culture or languages.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to the Sioux people or their language and culture
- 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
- noun a family of North American Indian languages spoken by the Sioux
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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The term Siouan is the adjective denoting the "Sioux" Indians and cognate tribes.
The Siouan Indians 1882
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Their languages are part of a family that linguistic anthropologists call Siouan or Siouan-Catawban, which is still spoken on the Great Plains of the United States and parts of southern Canada.
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It stands apart from just about anything I've read and the language used, seamlessly fusing English with bits of a Siouan tongue, as Paha Sapa gradually becomes more familiar with the white man's world and the white man's nature.
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It stands apart from just about anything I've read and the language used, seamlessly fusing English with bits of a Siouan tongue, as Paha Sapa gradually becomes more familiar with the white man's world and the white man's nature.
Archive 2010-04-01 2010
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Descended mainly from Cheraw and related Siouan speakers, the Lumbee have occupied what is now Robeson County since the eighteenth century.
Spider Bones Kathy Reichs 2010
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After the Yamasee War they became known as the Catawba, which means "cut off," apparently referring to their being cut off from other Siouan tribes.
History of American Women Maggiemac 2008
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Three major language families were represented in North Carolina: Iroquoian, Siouan, and Algonquian.
History of American Women Maggiemac 2008
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The Catawba were a Siouan-speaking tribe of the Piedmont area at the time of the first European contact.
History of American Women Maggiemac 2008
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The Catawba Nation was actually a military alliance of several Siouan tribes and remnants of tribes who had been decimated by war and disease, and joined the Catawba.
History of American Women Maggiemac 2008
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Members of this tribe still live near the South Carolina coast, and are represented by the Chicora-Siouan Indian Nation near Andrews, South Carolina, and the Chicora-Waccamaw near Conway.
History of American Women Maggiemac 2008
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