Yankton
Americannoun
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a member of one of two tribes of Dakota Indian people who inhabited the northern Great Plains in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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a town in SE South Dakota.
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But apparently no one said where exactly, because Boritt soon set out for Yankton, S.D., where he graduated from the now-defunct Yankton College in 1962.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026
The Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate and Yankton Sioux tribes on Friday passed separate resolutions to prohibit Ms Noem from setting foot in their territory.
From BBC ● May 13, 2024
Farther north, a fireworks show in Yankton, South Dakota, was postponed until Wednesday night because lightning prevented crews from setting up the display.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 4, 2023
"It's just another way of hindering our ability to vote," said Douglas Yankton, Chairman of the Spirit Lake Tribe.
From Salon ● Mar. 19, 2022
He never homesteaded and later worked at his trade in Yankton and Sioux City, where he died many years later.
From Some Pioneers and Pilgrims on the Prairies of Dakota Or, From the ox team to the aeroplane by Reese, H. B.
About ten leather tents or huts of the Sioux, of the branch of the Yanktons or Yanktoans, were set up near the fort....
From Villages of the Algonquian, Siouan, and Caddoan Tribes West of the Mississippi by Bushnell, David Ives
The Assiniboins, or Hohays, are an offshoot from the Yanktons, with whom they are now at war.
From France and England in North America; a Series of Historical Narratives — Part 3 by Parkman, Francis
Their present range is on the Missouri, above the Yanktons.
From Descriptive Catalogue of Photographs of North American Indians by Jackson, W. H.
Suffice it to say that Antoine lived and died among the Yanktons at a good old age; but Ami could not brook the invasion upon their hermit life.
From Old Indian Days by Eastman, Charles Alexander
The Santees, the Yanktons and the Tetons spoke their own dialects.
From Boys' Book of Indian Warriors and Heroic Indian Women by Sabin, Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand)
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