Yankton
Americannoun
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Yanktons,
plural
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Yankton
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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
Elk Zephier. who is who is Yankton Sioux and Oneida, also quit.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 23, 2022
When we got to St. Louis I handed Cato $10,000 to buy his goods with, and expressed the $23,200 to his address in Yankton.
From Taking Chances by Clarence L. Cullen
LeSueur refers to the Yanktons as the village of the Dakotas at the Red-Stone Quarry.
From The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems by Hanford Lennox Gordon
About one hundred Sissetons, Wahpetons, and thirty young Yanktons, were present.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various
But all the Yanktons were not friendly to the white men.
From Stories of American Life and Adventure by Edward Eggleston
LeSueur refers to the Yanktons as the village of the Dakotas at the Red-Stone Quarry, See Neill's Hist.
From Legends of the Northwest by Hanford Lennox Gordon
"And the Yanktons, and the burnt-wood Tetons, who live in the elbow of the river, 'with muddy water,' do they not come into the lodges of the Loups and smoke?"
From The Prairie by James Fenimore Cooper
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