Yanktonai

American  

[yangk-tuh-nahy] / ˌjæŋk təˈnaɪ /

noun

• Yanktonais,
  plural
• Yanktonai
  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.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• Yanktonai
  plural
• Yanktonais
  plural

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Example Sentences

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Yanktonai Yanktonais

Oscar Howe was a Yanktonai Dakota artist who operated outside any neat categorical box the art world tried to place him in.

From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2022

The Assiniboin were, until comparatively recent times, a part of the Yanktonai, from whom they may have separated while living in the forest region of the northern section of the present State of Minnesota.

From Villages of the Algonquian, Siouan, and Caddoan Tribes West of the Mississippi by David Ives Bushnell

The names applied by the whites were sometimes taken from geographic positions, as in the case of Upper Yanktonai and Cape Fear—the geographic names themselves being frequently of Indian origin.

From The Siouan Indians by W. J. (William John) McGee

The following are the gentes of the Lower Yanktonai, or Huñkpatina: 1, Pute-temini, Sweat-lips; the gens of Maxa-bomdu or Drifting Goose.

From Siouan Sociology by James Owen Dorsey

The Assiniboin, in historic times a separate tribe, was originally a part of the Yanktonai, from whom they separated and became closely allied with the Algonquian Cree.

From Villages of the Algonquian, Siouan, and Caddoan Tribes West of the Mississippi by David Ives Bushnell

Among them are some of the Yanktonais Sioux.

From The Battle of Atlanta and Other Campaigns, Addresses, Etc. by Grenville Mellen Dodge

The Yanktonais, a diminutive of the preceding name, and meaning the lesser or the little people of the End Village.

From Descriptive Catalogue of Photographs of North American Indians by W. H. Jackson

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