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Yankton
[ yangk-tuhn ]
noun
, plural Yank·tons, (especially collectively) Yank·ton
- a member of one of two tribes of Dakota Indian people who inhabited the northern Great Plains in the 18th and 19th centuries. Compare Yanktonai.
- a town in SE South Dakota.
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Then rose Toh-ki-e-to (a medicine-man,) of the Yankton band, and principal orator of the nation.
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Then, he gave his reasons: 'I know he is old, by the impression his gait has made and a Yankton by that of his moccasin.
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On the way, we made a short stop at the Yankton agency, which we had visited two years before.
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For the ordination the Congregational churches of Yankton and Springfield had united in calling the council.
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The building is going up—August, 1877—a neat and substantial frame, the material of which was brought up from Yankton by boat.
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