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These Yanktons are about two hundred men in number, and inhabit the Jacques, Des Moines, and Sioux Rivers.

From First Across the Continent The story of the exploring expedition of Lewis and Clark in 1804-5-6 by Brooks, Noah

The Indians who have just left us are the Yanktons, a tribe of the great nation of Sioux.

From First Across the Continent The story of the exploring expedition of Lewis and Clark in 1804-5-6 by Brooks, Noah

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 Gordon, Hanford Lennox

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

From Where the Trail Divides by Lillibridge, Will

The I-san-teis, or Santees, another sub-band of the Yanktons, living originally in Minnesota and Iowa, but since lately on the Missouri, near the Yanktons.

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