Sioux
Origin of Sioux
Examples from the Web for sioux
Contemporary Examples
A libertarian is willing to hear anti-immigration arguments – from a Sioux Indian.
“With all due respect, America was not made great by rich people,” she said at a campaign stop in Sioux City in 2008.
His second coach was a man whose mother was thought to be part Sioux.
She was born Pauline Esther Friedman in Sioux City, Iowa, in 1918.
The Sioux City faceoff made clear that Gingrich is the man to beat in Iowa.
Newt Gingrich, Under Fire, Plays Clumsy Defense in Fox News Iowa DebateHoward Kurtz
December 16, 2011
Historical Examples
January 29, 1909, he died at his home in Sioux Falls after a brief illness.
A Breath of Prairie and other storiesWill Lillibridge
“We are in real Sioux country now,” observed Scott, as he again dismounted.
The Mountain DivideFrank H. Spearman
They rode westward, doubtless to make a raid on their enemies, the Sioux.
A Gold Hunter's ExperienceChalkley J. Hambleton
But if she had thought it a Sioux and Comanche story, it would have been the same to her.
The Paliser caseEdgar Saltus
Including the Yanktons, a branch of the Sioux, there were some 205 lodges.
Policing the PlainsR.G. MacBeth
Sioux
- plural Sioux (suː, suːz) 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
Word Origin
Word Origin and History for sioux
Sioux
group of North American Indian tribes, 1761, from North American French, short for Nadouessioux, sometimes said to be from Ojibway (Algonquian) Natowessiwak (plural), literally "little snakes," from nadowe "Iroquois" (literally "big snakes"). Another explanation traces it to early Ottawa (Algonquian) singular /na:towe:ssi/ (plural /na:towe:ssiwak/) "Sioux," apparently from a verb meaning "to speak a foreign language" [Bright]. In either case, a name given by their neighbors; the people's name for themselves is Dakota.
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.