Siouan Definition

so͝oən
noun
A family of North American Indian languages formerly spoken in the WC U.S., central Canada, and parts of Virginia and the Carolinas: it includes Iowa, Mandan, Dakota, Crow, Hidatsa, Osage, etc.
Webster's New World
A member of a Siouan-speaking people.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
  • sioux
  • Siouan language
adjective
Designating or of this family of languages.
Webster's New World

Origin of Siouan

  • Siou(x) –an

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Siouan Sentence Examples

  • The name Iowa (meaning "sleepy ones") was taken from a tribe of Siouan Indians (probably of Winnebago stock), which for some time had dwelt in that part of the country and were still there when the first white men came - the Frenchmen,.

  • Muskhogean tribes were potters, but Siouan tribes, as a rule, in all the Mississippi drainage were not.

  • Another quasinegative notion of more restricted distribution is that of the mysterious or strange, as we have it expressed, for example, in the Siouan wakan, though possibly this is a derivative meaning.

  • Among the Indians who occupied Nebraska immediately before the advent of the whites and thereafter, the only families of much importance in the state's history were the Caddoan and the Siouan.

  • The Caddoan family was represented by the Middle or Pawnee Confederacy; the Siouan family by its Dakota, Thegiha, Chiwere and Winnebago branches.

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Words Starting With

SSI

Words Ending With

NANUAN

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Siouan

Words Starting With S and Ending With N

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