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
Magnuson sentenced them last month to 3 1/2 years and 3 years, respectively, and recommended that they go to Duluth or Yankton.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 16, 2022
Thus Lars Almen, when he arrived at Yankton, had 50 cents in money left.
From Some Pioneers and Pilgrims on the Prairies of Dakota Or, From the ox team to the aeroplane by H. B. Reese
But all the Yanktons were not friendly to the white men.
From Stories of American Life and Adventure by Edward Eggleston
"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
These Yanktons are about two hundred men in number, and inhabit the Jacques, Des Moines, and Sioux Rivers.
From First Across the Continent The story of the exploring expedition of Lewis and Clark in 1804-5-6 by Noah Brooks
The I-san-teis, or Santees, another sub-band of the Yanktons, living originally in Minnesota and Iowa, but since lately on the Missouri, near the Yanktons.
From Descriptive Catalogue of Photographs of North American Indians by W. H. Jackson
They are divided into numerous tribes, named Yanktons, Tetons, Assinaboins, &c.
From Oregon and Eldorado or, Romance of the Rivers by Thomas Bulfinch
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