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–noun, plural Sioux

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Dakota (defs. 4, 6).

[Origin: 1755–65, Americanism; < North American F, shortening of earlier Nadouessioux < Ojibwa (Ottawa dial.) na·towe·ssiw(ak) pl. (< Proto-Algonquian *na·towe·hsiw-, deriv. of *na·towe·wa Iroquoian, prob. lit., speaker of a foreign language) + F -x pl. marker

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n. pl. Sioux (sōō, sōōz)

1. A group of Native American peoples, also known as the Dakota, inhabiting the northern Great Plains from Minnesota to eastern Montana and from southern Saskatchewan to Nebraska. Present-day Sioux populations are located mainly in North and South Dakota.
2. A member of any of these peoples.
Any of the Siouan languages of the Sioux peoples.

[North American French, short for nadouéssioux, from Ottawa naadowesiwag.]

Sioux adj.

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Sioux

group of N.Amer. Indian tribes, 1761, from N.Amer. Fr., aphetic for Nadowessioux, from Ojibway Natowessiwak (pl.), lit. "little snakes," from nadowe "Iroquois" (lit. "big snakes"). A name given by their neighbors; the people's name for themselves is Dakota, lit. "allies."

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sioux
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a member of a group of North American Indian peoples who spoke a Siouan language and who ranged from Lake Michigan to the Rocky Mountains

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Sioux [(sooh)]

A common name for the Dakota people, a tribe of Native Americans inhabiting the northern Great Plains in the nineteenth century. They were famed as warriors and frequently took up arms in the late nineteenth century to oppose the settlement of their hunting grounds and sacred places. In 1876, Sioux warriors, led by Chief Sitting Bull, and commanded in the field by Chief Crazy Horse, overwhelmed the United States cavalry at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. (See Custer's last stand.) A group of Sioux under Chief Big Foot were massacred by United States troops at Wounded Knee in 1890.

[Chapter:] American History since 1865

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Sioux Rapids, IA (city, FIPS 73425) Location: 42.89188 N, 95.14806 W
Population (1990): 761 (377 housing units)
Area: 1.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 50585

Sioux Center, IA (city, FIPS 73290) Location: 43.07656 N, 96.17148 W
Population (1990): 5074 (1620 housing units)
Area: 13.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 51250

Sioux County, IA (county, FIPS 167) Location: 43.08298 N, 96.17742 W
Population (1990): 29903 (10333 housing units)
Area: 1989.0 sq km (land), 1.8 sq km (water)

Sioux County, NE (county, FIPS 165) Location: 42.48078 N, 103.77126 W
Population (1990): 1549 (869 housing units)
Area: 5352.7 sq km (land), 1.9 sq km (water)

Sioux County, ND (county, FIPS 85) Location: 46.10779 N, 101.04893 W
Population (1990): 3761 (1175 housing units)
Area: 2834.0 sq km (land), 88.5 sq km (water)

Sioux Falls, SD (city, FIPS 59020) Location: 43.54420 N, 96.73010 W
Population (1990): 100814 (41568 housing units)
Area: 116.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 57102, 57103, 57104, 57105, 57106, 57107, 57116
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Sioux City, IA (city, FIPS 73335) Location: 42.50015 N, 96.39395 W
Population (1990): 80505 (32177 housing units)
Area: 140.6 sq km (land), 3.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 51101, 51103, 51104, 51105, 51106, 51107, 51108, 51109,

South Sioux City, NE (city, FIPS 46030) Location: 42.46595 N, 96.41210 W
Population (1990): 9677 (3816 housing units)
Area: 12.1 sq km (land), 0.8 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 68776

North Sioux City, SD (city, FIPS 45700) Location: 42.53658 N, 96.50213 W
Population (1990): 2019 (795 housing units)
Area: 5.4 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)

Little Sioux, IA (city, FIPS 45840) Location: 41.80827 N, 96.02674 W
Population (1990): 205 (116 housing units)
Area: 0.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 51545

Portage Des Sioux, MO (city, FIPS 59150) Location: 38.92610 N, 90.34195 W
Population (1990): 503 (215 housing units)
Area: 1.1 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)

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Sioux

Da*ko"tas\, n. pl.; sing. Dacota. (Ethnol.) An extensive race or stock of Indians, including many tribes, mostly dwelling west of the Mississippi River; -- also, in part, called Sioux. [Written also Dacotahs.]

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