Sisseton

[ sis-i-tuhn, -tn ]

noun

, plural Sis·se·tons, (especially collectively) Sis·se·ton.

1. a member of a North American Indian people belonging to the Santee branch of the Dakota.

Example Sentences

The Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate and Yankton Sioux tribes on Friday passed separate resolutions to prohibit Ms Noem from setting foot in their territory.

From BBC

When she visited, that forthrightness struck Majel Boxer, a professor of Native American and Indigenous studies at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colo., who is Sisseton and Wahpeton Dakota.

From New York Times

“Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate expected Amos to return home from Carlisle Indian Industrial School,” they wrote, “to lead his people like his father and serve as a model for future generations of Tribal leaders.”

From Seattle Times

The Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate wrote to the head of the U.S.

From Seattle Times

The Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate want to bury him next to his father on the Lake Traverse Reservation in northeast South Dakota.

From Seattle Times