Yanktonai
noun
a member of one of two tribes of Dakota Indian people who inhabited the northern Great Plains in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Yanktonais
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pluralof Yanktonai.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
