Siouan

American  

[soo-uhn] / ˈsu ən /

noun

1. an American Indian language family formerly widespread from Saskatchewan to the lower Mississippi, also found in the Virginia and Carolina piedmont, and including Catawba, Crow, Dakota, Hidatsa, Mandan, Osage, and Winnebago.

2. a member of one of the Siouan-speaking peoples.

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adjective

1. of or relating to the Sioux or the Siouan languages.

Siouan British  

/ ˈsuːən /

noun

1. a family of North American Indian languages including Sioux, probably related to Iroquoian

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adjective

1. of or relating to the Sioux peoples or languages

Etymology

Origin of Siouan

An Americanism dating back to 1885–90; Sioux + -an

Example Sentences

The Dakota constitute the largest division of the great Siouan linguistic family.

From Villages of the Algonquian, Siouan, and Caddoan Tribes West of the Mississippi by Bushnell, David Ives

Sifans, the, 211 Sihanakas, the, 242 Sikemeier, W., 549 Sikhs, the, 550 Siksika, the, 354, 370, 372 sqq., and map, pp. 334-5 Singpho, the, 186 Siouan linguistic stock, the, 342, 347, 355, 371 sqq.,

From Man, Past and Present by Haddon, Alfred Court

Siouan, a small group in Virginia, Carolina, Catawba, etc. and a very large group, practically occupying the basins of the Missouri and Arkansas, with a prolongation through Wisconsin, where were the Winnebago.

From Man, Past and Present by Haddon, Alfred Court

The Siouan tribes of Virginia built some of their bath houses of stone; but throughout Virginia the common material for such structures was wood.

From Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century by Forman, Henry Chandlee

First, a growing and expounding Siouan race, pressed forward also by an expanding irresistible Algonkian stock, occupied the high plains and pushed back its peoples behind the wall of mountains.

From Glacier National Park [Montana] by Interior, United States Dept. of the