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

At one Siouan village, "the first Puff blew down all the Palisadoes that fortified the town."

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

Unlike the Siouan and the Iroquoian, the Algonquian tribes of tidewater Virginia, such as the Powhatans, did not erect earth mounds—at least, as far as present evidence indicates.

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

They were of the Siouan family and cousins of the Minnetarees, the Bird-woman's captors.

From Boys' Book of Indian Warriors and Heroic Indian Women by Sabin, Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand)

It is rather curious that these should be described as "winter habitations" among that Algonquian tribe, and as being occupied during the summer by the Siouan people.

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

Therefore it is more than probable that much of the ancient pottery encountered in this part of the Mississippi Valley was made by this southern Siouan tribe.

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