Yanktons

• plural

  plural

  The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.

  of Yankton.
  Yankton

  noun

  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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Yanktons

Lewis and Clark described them as the Yanktons of the Plains, or Big Devils, who were on the heads of the Sioux, Jacques, and Red Rivers.

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

When the Yanktons were crossing the Missouri on the ice, a hole lay immediately in their course, which might easily have been avoided by going round.

From Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 3 by James Athearn Jones

These bands rarely if ever approach the Missouri, which is occupied by their kinsmen the Yanktons and the Tetons.

From History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. I. To the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed During the Years 1804-5-6. by Paul Allen

Many more, encamped along the borders were watching the negotiations between the government and the Yanktons, eager and alert to step over the line the very instant the door should be opened.

From Some Pioneers and Pilgrims on the Prairies of Dakota Or, From the ox team to the aeroplane by H. B. Reese

It wasn't a month ago that a party of Yanktons left a whole antelope.

From Where the Trail Divides by Will Lillibridge

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