Siouan

How To Use Siouan In A Sentence

• Their languages are part of a family that linguistic anthropologists call Siouan or Siouan-Catawban, which is still spoken on the Great Plains of the United States and parts of southern Canada. Saying goodbye to my "Fargo" accent
• It stands apart from just about anything I've read and the language used, seamlessly fusing English with bits of a Siouan tongue, as Paha Sapa gradually becomes more familiar with the white man's world and the white man's nature. Rabid Reads: "Black Hills" by Dan Simmons
• Descended mainly from Cheraw and related Siouan speakers, the Lumbee have occupied what is now Robeson County since the eighteenth century. Spider Bones
• The Catawba were a Siouan-speaking tribe of the Piedmont area at the time of the first European contact. History of American Women
• After the Yamasee War they became known as the Catawba, which means "cut off," apparently referring to their being cut off from other Siouan tribes. History of American Women
• On the whole, it may be safe to consider the sun as the Siouan arch-mystery, with the mythic thunder-bird or family of thunder-birds as a sort of mediate link between the mysteries and men, possessing less power but displaying more activity in human affairs than the remoter wakanda of the heavens. The Siouan Indians
• There is promise that, as the demology of aboriginal America is pushed forward, the records relating to the Siouan Indians and especially to their structure and institutions will aid in explaining why some stocks are limited and others extensive, why large stocks in general characterize the interior and small stocks the coasts, and why the dominant peoples of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries were successful in displacing the preexistent and probably more primitive peoples of the Mississippi valley. The Siouan Indians
• Three major language families were represented in North Carolina: Iroquoian, Siouan, and Algonquian. History of American Women
• The Catawba Nation was actually a military alliance of several Siouan tribes and remnants of tribes who had been decimated by war and disease, and joined the Catawba. History of American Women
• The Catawba were a Siouan-speaking tribe of the Piedmont area at the time of the first European contact. History of American Women