Siouan

[ soo-uhn ]

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noun

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.
a member of one of the Siouan-speaking peoples.

Siouan

/ ˈsuːən /

a family of North American Indian languages including Sioux, probably related to Iroquoian

Origin of Siouan¹

An Americanism dating back to 1885–90; Sioux + -an

The great Siouan race occupied nearly all the upper valley of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers and their tributaries.

At one Siouan village, "the first Puff blew down all the Palisadoes that fortified the town."

Contrary to the popular opinion of the present day, the general trend of Siouan migration has been westward.

In comparatively late prehistoric times, probably most of the Siouan tribes dwelt east of the Mississippi River.

Once more the Mississippi became the eastern boundary, but in this case separating the Siouan from the Muskhogean territory.

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