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Otos

  • plural
    of Oto.
    Oto
    noun
    a member of a Siouan-speaking tribe of North American Indians who formerly inhabited the lower Missouri River basin and now live in Oklahoma.

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He and most of the 2,000 other Kaws, Pawnees, Otos and Osages present had come in first-class automobiles.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then after Leda to my vision came the wife of Aloeus, Iphimedeia, proud that she once had held the flowing sea and borne him sons, thunderers for a day, the world-renowned Otos and Ephialtes.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

Boteler, United States Indian service, collected from the Otos at the Oto Agency, Nebraska, during 1879-'80.

From Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other Peoples And Deaf-Mutes First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-1880, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 263-552 by Garrick Mallery

By a general agreement the Otos, Joway, Fox, and Saukie Indians hunt this country in common.

From Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII by Alexander Philipp Maximilian

From the Illinois, and from lesser posts among the Osages, Missouris, and Kansas, traders worked among these tribes, the Iowas, Otos, Pawnees of the Platte, and other more northern bands of Indians.

From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Herbert Eugene Bolton

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