Sioux
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Traffic control systems in more congested areas also help keep boats safe, like the vessel traffic service in the Sioux Saint Marie area in Michigan.
Dead ships find solace under the treacherous surface of the Great Lakes | Margo Milanowski | December 6, 2021 | Popular-SciencePrime railroad territory was often prime grazing territory, and valuable resources like gold were found in places where the Sioux hunted.
What the True Story of Buffalo Bill Reveals About the Myth of the Wild West | Ijeoma Olou | November 12, 2021 | TimeYet he made just one trip to the Plains, where he met with the Sioux in Wyoming and Nebraska.
Walker and the “Indian Question” | Simson Garfinkel ’87, PhD ’05 | August 24, 2021 | MIT Technology ReviewAs the bill failed in the Senate, a pigtailed member of the Lakota Sioux tribe stood up in the gallery and began chanting.
Keystone Senate Failure Is Environmental Kabuki Theater | Ben Jacobs | November 19, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTA libertarian is willing to hear anti-immigration arguments – from a Sioux Indian.
Up To A Point: My Problem With People Who Agree With Me | P. J. O’Rourke | July 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
A non-Sioux nation in the state, Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, also said no.
The Native Americans Who Voted for ‘The Fighting Sioux’ | Evan Weiner | June 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHer songs range from mach-10 electro-pop, as on the track “SuperLove,” to a more punk-pop sound, a la Siouxsie Sioux or Blondie.
SXSW Breakout Musical Acts: London Grammar, Chance the Rapper, Jungle, and More | Marlow Stern | March 16, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST“With all due respect, America was not made great by rich people,” she said at a campaign stop in Sioux City in 2008.
The Sioux believed that if either men or horses were approaching the ponies would have called.
Three Sioux Scouts | Elmer Russell GregorAware that the Sioux were distancing them, the Pawnee hunters were shouting encouragement to their tribesmen.
Three Sioux Scouts | Elmer Russell GregorShe had seen somewhere a photograph of a Sioux chief whose austere countenance was very like the minister's.
A Hoosier Chronicle | Meredith NicholsonThe Sioux were within several arrow flights of their goal, however, and their hopes grew stronger.
Three Sioux Scouts | Elmer Russell GregorAware that the Sioux had suddenly gained the advantage, the Pawnees were cautious about exposing themselves.
Three Sioux Scouts | Elmer Russell Gregor
British Dictionary definitions for Sioux
/ (suː) /
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
Origin of Sioux
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Cultural definitions for Sioux
[ (sooh) ]
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.
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