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

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

They are divided into numerous tribes, named Yanktons, Tetons, Assinaboins, &c.

From Oregon and Eldorado or, Romance of the Rivers by Thomas Bulfinch

These were the Yanktons, one of the important tribes of the great Sioux nation.

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

These Yanktons are about two hundred men in number; and inhabit the Jacques, Desmoines, and Sioux rivers.

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

LeSueur refers to the Yanktons as the village of the Dakotas at the Red-Stone Quarry.

From The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems by Hanford Lennox Gordon

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