Yankton

American  

[yangk-tuhn] / ˈjæŋk tən /

noun

• Yanktons,
  plural
• Yankton
  plural

1. a member of one of two tribes of Dakota Indian people who inhabited the northern Great Plains in the 18th and 19th centuries.

2. a town in SE South Dakota.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• Yankton
  plural
• Yanktons
  plural

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Example Sentences

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Yankton Yanktons

Earlier this year, Kao agreed to meet a ProPublica reporter at the Federal Prison Camp in Yankton, South Dakota, where he is incarcerated.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

Shortly after arriving in Yankton, in 1959, Boritt sent away for a pamphlet of Lincoln’s speeches, published to celebrate Lincoln’s 150th birthday that year.

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

The passengers themselves were healthy, and remained so after landing and until they reached the distant points of Carthage, Ohio, Crow River, Minn., and Yankton, Dak., where their goods were unpacked.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

Their punctilious determination not to be turned from their course became heroic, or ridiculous, a short time since, when the Yanktons were crossing the Missouri on the ice.

From First Across the Continent The story of the exploring expedition of Lewis and Clark in 1804-5-6 by Noah Brooks

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 Charles Alexander Eastman

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

Including the Yanktons, a branch of the Sioux, there were some 205 lodges.

From Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police by R. G. (Roderick George) MacBeth

The bearing of the Yanktons, as of almost every other Indian tribe, has been modified or altogether changed, time and again, under the will of successive chiefs.

From Lewis and Clark Meriwether Lewis and William Clark by William R. (William Rheem) Lighton

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