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SIOUX

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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

Synonyms:

Siouan; Sioux

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Sioux" is a kind of...):

Buffalo Indian; Plains 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)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Sioux"):

Biloxi (a member of the Siouan people of southeastern Mississippi)

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; commonly called the Sioux)

Dhegiha (any member of a Siouan people speaking one of the Dhegiha languages)

Gros Ventre; Hidatsa (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)

Eastern Sioux; Santee; Santee Dakota; Santee Sioux (a member of the eastern branch of the Sioux)

Lakota; Teton; Teton Dakota; Teton Sioux (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; ally of the Menomini and enemy of the Fox and Sauk people)

Instance hyponyms:

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))

Rain-in-the-Face (a chief of the Sioux; he was with Sitting Bull and others at the Battle of Little Bighorn (1876) when General Custer's troops were massacred (1835-1905))

Derivation:

Siouan (of or relating to the Sioux people or their language and culture)

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