Native American group

Usage examples of sioux.

MERCHANT PRINCES their retinues came from every corner of the HBCs former empire-Swampy Cree from Hudson and James bays, Saulteaux from Lake Winnipeg, Ojibwas from the Nipigon country, Sioux from the Portage Plains, and mighty warriors from the Peace and Athabasca valleys.

He joined a band of Cheyenne and Sioux living in the foothills of the Bitterroot Range and eventually earned a position of high authority and respect among them.

Pointing to the arrow shafts protruding from the dead buffalos, the little Sioux indicated that the ones bearing yellow and white feathers were his.

From a branch of the dreaded Sioux, this Catawba was one of the fast-dwindling warlike tribe that hunted game and enemies up and down the length of the sprawling Catawba River.

I am assured by the best interpreters in the country, that it bears no affinity to the Cree, Sioux, or Chipewyan languages.

A long time ago he made friends with Spotted Hawk, and when the Sioux or anybody crowded him too clost, the Crows would come in and help him.

We lose them both under some cumulostratus that had everything from Bau Claire west to Sioux Falls blacked out.

He knocked on the steel door happily loudly, seeing it all in his mind suddenly, how it would be then, some sturdy 403 Li little permanent post that drowsed along from day to day, like Jefferson Barracks or Fort Riley, with solid brick barracks and new-cut grass and well kept walks under the long afternoon shadows of big old oak trees that had been standing in the same place since before George Armstrong Custer had his hair cut by the Sioux, that would be the kind of place to re-enlist for, where the NCO quarters were brick too and not this jerrybuilt ship lathe they have here, and where you can take her right into a community and a little society that the married noncoms made and maintained for themselves alone.

Sioux Indians as a statuesque, historical figure, an advocate of their ancestral rights and a recorder of their place among the races of man.

Sioux, but Red Cloud refused arbitrarily, and told the commissioners that the Indians would fight for their ancient hunting grounds and sacred lands until the last one was killed if necessary.

Sioux is actually a misnomer, because the people call themselves Lakota in this region.

When the English and the French reached North America, it had happened to the Huron and the Mohegan and the Cherokee, and was happening even now to the Sioux and the Cheyenne and the Apache.

The first time I went out to talk to Black Elk about the Ogalala Sioux, I found him sitting alone under a shelter of pine boughs near his log cabin that stands on a barren hill about two miles west of Manderson Post Office.

I wish to express gratitude to my friends among the Ogalala Sioux for helping me in many ways, and for their human kindness, although most of them will never learn that I have done so.

To give just a few examples, anywhere from 70 to 600 Cheyenne may have been killed in the Sand Creek massacre of 1864, about 103 Cheyenne were slaughtered at Washita in 1868, 250 Shoshoni were murdered at Bear River in 1863, and perhaps 146 Sioux at Wounded Knee in 1890.