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Answer for the clue "Branch of the Dakota Indians ", 5 letters:
teton

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Gazetteer Word definitions in Gazetteer
Population (2000): 18251 Housing Units (2000): 10267 Land area (2000): 4007.758741 sq. miles (10380.047047 sq. km) Water area (2000): 214.041646 sq. miles (554.365295 sq. km) Total area (2000): 4221.800387 sq. miles (10934.412342 sq. km) Located within: ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
member of a western Sioux people, 1806, from Dakota titonwan , literally "dwellers on the prairie," from thi + huwa . Not related to the Grand Teton mountain range.

Usage examples of teton.

Among the Teton many groups which were originally sections have become gentes, for the marriage laws do not affect the original phratries, gentes, and subgentes.

The effects of consolidation are conspicuous among the Omaha, Kansa, Osage, and Oto, while segregation has affected the social organization among the Kansa, Ponka, and Teton.

Minneconjou, Uncapapa, Teton and Santee, Sans Arc and Black Foot, leagued with their only rivals in plainscraft and horsemanship and strategy, the Cheyennes, thronged to that wild and beautiful land once the home of the Crows.

Yankton and Yanktonai speak the Yankton dialect, which has many words in common with the Teton.

Blink swore that he was going back to Teton Gulch next morning, and had jest stopped by to say hello, so I was mollified and pulled out for Yavapai without no more delay.

They were then addressed in the Sioux language, and answered that they were Tetons, of the band headed by Black Buffaloe, Tahtackasabah.

Among the, Nadowessies or Dahcotahs, the subdivision has been still greater, the same original tribe having given birth to the Konsas, the Mandans, the Tetons, the Yangtongs, Sassitongs, Ollah-Gallahs, the Siones, the Wallah Wallahs, the Cayuses, the Black-feet, and lastly the Winnebagoes.

I spliced the girths with the rest of my lariat, and put Brother Rembrandt in the saddle and clumb on behind and we headed for Teton Gulch.

They informed me that they were Tetons and their chief was the Black Buffalo.

It was too late to get anything done at the Teton County courthouse, so we stayed the night at a motel in Choteau, the county seat.

The Sioux Tetons were at that time a sort of pirates of the Missouri, who considered the well freighted bark of the American trader fair game.

Bordered on the west by the towering Tetons and on the east by the Gros Ventre range, the valley is sealed in the north by Yellowstone Park.

Accordingly, on the 15th of May he departed from the village of the Omahas, and set forward towards the country of the formidable Sioux Tetons.

Leaders among the Teton Sioux at Pine Ridge, South Dakota, called for armed rebellion against the whites.

I found it all over the East Front, in Teton, Pondera, and Glacier counties.