sioux
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1. a member of a group of North American Indian peoples who spoke a Siouan language and who ranged from Lake Michigan to the Rocky Mountains (noun.person)
| hypernym | : | buffalo indian, plains indian, |
| definition | : | a member of one of the tribes of American Indians who lived a nomadic life following the buffalo in the Great Plains of North America (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | biloxi, |
| definition | : | a member of the Siouan people of southeastern Mississippi (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | catawba, |
| definition | : | a member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Carolinas (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | crow, |
| definition | : | a member of the Siouan people formerly living in eastern Montana (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | dakota, |
| definition | : | a member of the Siouan people of the northern Mississippi valley; commonly called the Sioux (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | dhegiha, |
| definition | : | any member of a Siouan people speaking one of the Dhegiha languages (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | gros ventre, hidatsa, |
| definition | : | a member of the Sioux people formerly inhabiting an area along the Missouri river in western North Dakota (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | iowa, ioway, |
| definition | : | a member of the Siouan people formerly living in Iowa and Minnesota and Missouri (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | missouri, |
| definition | : | a member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the valley of the Missouri river in Missouri (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | ofo, |
| definition | : | a member of the Siouan people living in the Yazoo river valley in Mississippi (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | oto, otoe, |
| definition | : | a member of the Siouan people inhabiting the valleys of the Platte and Missouri rivers in Nebraska (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | lakota, teton, teton dakota, teton sioux, |
| definition | : | a member of the large western branch of Sioux people which was made up of several groups that lived on the plains (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | tutelo, |
| definition | : | a member of the Siouan people of Virginia and North Carolina (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | winnebago, |
| definition | : | a member of the Siouan-speaking people formerly living in eastern Wisconsin south of Green Bay; ally of the Menomini and enemy of the Fox and Sauk people (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | crazy horse, tashunca-uitco, |
| definition | : | a chief of the Sioux who resisted the invasion of the Black Hills and joined Sitting Bull in the defeat of General Custer at Little Bighorn (1849-1877) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | rain-in-the-face, |
| definition | : | a chief of the Sioux; he was with Sitting Bull and others at the Battle of Little Bighorn (1876) when General Custer's troops were massacred (1835-1905) (noun.person) |
| derivation | : | siouan, |
| definition | : | of or relating to the Sioux people or their language and culture (adj.pert) |
| derivation | : | siouan, |
| definition | : | of or relating to the Sioux people or their language and culture (adj.pert) |
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