Crossword clues for siouan
siouan
- Dakota's language family
- Winnebago, e.g
- Red Cloud, for one
- Native American language group
- Lakota's language family
- Winnebago or Dakota
- Osage, e.g
- Osage or Omaha
- Native American language
- Language that gave us the word "catawba"
- Language family that includes Crow and Lakota
- Dakota, e.g
- Crow language family
- American Indian language family
- Amerindian language
- Osage, e.g.
- Iowa, for one
- Like many Plains Indians
- A family of North American Indian languages spoken by the Sioux
- 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
- Dakota, e.g.
- Indian language family
- Omaha, for one
- Dakota Indian
- Crow, e.g.
- Crow, e.g
- Great Plains language family
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Siouan
1885, from Sioux + -an. Replacing Dakotan.
Usage examples of "siouan".
On the whole, the speech of the Siouan stock may be said to have been fairly developed, and may, with the Algonquian, Iroquoian, and Shoshonean, be regarded as typical for the portion of North America lying north of Mexico.
Algonquian, Athapascan, Iroquoian, Shoshonean, Siouan, and others of more limited extent.
Ceremonial objects were common, the most conspicuous being the calumet, carved out of the sacred pipestone or catlinite quarried for many generations in the midst of the Siouan territory.
While the Pony Express is defying deserts, savages and sidewinders, Tristero's giving its employees crash courses in Siouan and Athapascan dialects.