Sioux

[soo]

noun

plural

Sioux 

1. Dakota.

Sioux

/ suː /

noun

1. 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

2. any of the Siouan languages

Sioux

1. 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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Sioux¹

An Americanism dating back to 1755–65; from North American French, shortening of earlier Nadouessioux from Ojibwe (Ottawa dialect) na·towe·ssiw(ak) (plural), from unattested Proto-Algonquian na·towe·hsiw-, derivative of unattested na·towe·wa ”Iroquoian,” probably literally, “speaker of a foreign language”) + French -x plural marker

Word History and Origins

Origin of Sioux¹

from French, shortened from Nadowessioux, from Chippewa Nadoweisiw

Example Sentences

When NPR interviewed Rich Luze, who oversees nutrition for the Sioux City Community School District in Iowa, he worried the government had bungled the way it ended the pandemic’s free meal benefits.

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He too is returning to a familiar spot, as he was a right tackle at the University of Sioux Falls.

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One, here in Sioux City, we have 25 different Head Start programs, and the impact on them would be devastating, and the impact on Sioux City if those were to get cut would be devastating.

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It's a long shot in a deep-red state, but Scholten has some advantages, including being the pitcher for the Sioux City Explorers.

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Protests against the pipeline near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation drew thousands, but Greenpeace argued it did not lead the demonstration and that the lawsuit threatened free speech.

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