Sioux

[ soo ]

noun

, plural Sioux [soo, sooz].

1. Dakota ( defs 4, 6 ).

Sioux

/ suː /

noun

1. Siouxsuːsuːz a member of a group of North American Indian peoples formerly ranging over a wide area of the Plains from Lake Michigan to the Rocky Mountains
2. any of the Siouan languages

Sioux

1. A common name for the Dakota people, a tribe of Native Americans inhabiting the northern Great Plains in the nineteenth century. They were famed as warriors and frequently took up arms in the late nineteenth century to oppose the settlement of their hunting grounds and sacred places. In 1876, Sioux warriors, led by Chief Sitting Bull , and commanded in the field by Chief Crazy Horse , overwhelmed the United States cavalry at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. ( See Custer's last stand .) A group of Sioux under Chief Big Foot were massacred by United States troops at Wounded Knee in 1890.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Sioux¹

An Americanism dating back to 1755–65; from North American French, shortening of earlier Nadouessioux from Ojibwe (Ottawa dialect) na·towe·ssiw(ak) (plural), from unattested Proto-Algonquian na·towe·hsiw-, derivative of unattested na·towe·wa ”Iroquoian,” probably literally, “speaker of a foreign language”) + French -x plural marker

Word History and Origins

Origin of Sioux¹

from French, shortened from Nadowessioux, from Chippewa Nadoweisiw

Example Sentences

After that, she was supposed to perform Monday in Sioux Falls, Wednesday in Milwaukee and Thursday in Des Moines.

From Los Angeles Times

“The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen,” which was released in 2017 from University of Minnesota Press in Minneapolis, allows readers to explore Sherman’s work anc culinary a little closer to home.

From Salon

“I had to put myself in a bubble of confidence because otherwise I would have been a puddle on the floor,” said Hahn, who channeled “that gender-less quality of ’80s rockers” like Siouxsie Sioux.

From Los Angeles Times

The Lakota Sioux of the High Plains put up a heroic resistance to the European immigrants and their descendants who kept coming and coming, prospectors and settlers and soldiers.

From Salon

Once he arrived, Savage, who said he has Dakota Sioux heritage and is an Air Force combat veteran, found that “this was very familiar to me.”

From Los Angeles Times