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Sioux
[ soo ]
Sioux
/ suː /
noun
- Siouxsuːsuːz a member of a group of North American Indian peoples formerly ranging over a wide area of the Plains from Lake Michigan to the Rocky Mountains
- any of the Siouan languages
Sioux
- A common name for the Dakota people, a tribe of Native Americans inhabiting the northern Great Plains in the nineteenth century. They were famed as warriors and frequently took up arms in the late nineteenth century to oppose the settlement of their hunting grounds and sacred places. In 1876, Sioux warriors, led by Chief Sitting Bull , and commanded in the field by Chief Crazy Horse , overwhelmed the United States cavalry at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. ( See Custer's last stand .) A group of Sioux under Chief Big Foot were massacred by United States troops at Wounded Knee in 1890.
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Traffic control systems in more congested areas also help keep boats safe, like the vessel traffic service in the Sioux Saint Marie area in Michigan.
Prime railroad territory was often prime grazing territory, and valuable resources like gold were found in places where the Sioux hunted.
Yet he made just one trip to the Plains, where he met with the Sioux in Wyoming and Nebraska.
As the bill failed in the Senate, a pigtailed member of the Lakota Sioux tribe stood up in the gallery and began chanting.
A libertarian is willing to hear anti-immigration arguments – from a Sioux Indian.
A non-Sioux nation in the state, Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, also said no.
Her songs range from mach-10 electro-pop, as on the track “SuperLove,” to a more punk-pop sound, a la Siouxsie Sioux or Blondie.
“With all due respect, America was not made great by rich people,” she said at a campaign stop in Sioux City in 2008.
The Sioux believed that if either men or horses were approaching the ponies would have called.
Aware that the Sioux were distancing them, the Pawnee hunters were shouting encouragement to their tribesmen.
She had seen somewhere a photograph of a Sioux chief whose austere countenance was very like the minister's.
The Sioux were within several arrow flights of their goal, however, and their hopes grew stronger.
Aware that the Sioux had suddenly gained the advantage, the Pawnees were cautious about exposing themselves.
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