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Siou⋅an

  [soo-uhn]
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–noun
1. an American Indian language family formerly widespread from Saskatchewan to the lower Mississippi, also found in the Virginia and Carolina piedmont, and including Catawba, Crow, Dakota, Hidatsa, Mandan, Osage, and Winnebago.
2. a member of one of the Siouan-speaking peoples.
–adjective
3. of or pertaining to the Sioux or the Siouan languages.
Origin:
1885–90, Americanism; Sioux + -an
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Siou·an   (sōō'ən)   
n.  

  1. A large North American Indian language family spoken from Lake Michigan to the Rocky Mountains and southward to Arkansas as well as in South Carolina.

  2. A member of a Siouan-speaking people.


[Siou(x) + -an1.]
Siou'an adj.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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