Yanktonai

American  

[yangk-tuh-nahy] / ˌyæŋk təˈnaɪ /

noun

plural

Yanktonais,

plural

Yanktonai

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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Example Sentences

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 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 McGee, W. J. (William John)

The Yankton and Yanktonai speak the Yankton dialect, which has many words in common with the Teton.

From Siouan Sociology by Dorsey, James Owen

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 Bushnell, David Ives

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 Bushnell, David Ives