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Yankton
[ yangk-tuhn ]
noun
- a member of one of two tribes of Dakota Indian people who inhabited the northern Great Plains in the 18th and 19th centuries. Compare Yanktonai.
- a town in SE South Dakota.
Example Sentences
Sheppard’s biggest gamble, however, was enrolling his daughter in an elementary school in Yankton.
A string of forged documents had landed him his new identity, a job and even a rented house in Yankton, South Dakota.
Then rose Toh-ki-e-to (a medicine-man,) of the Yankton band, and principal orator of the nation.
Then, he gave his reasons: 'I know he is old, by the impression his gait has made and a Yankton by that of his moccasin.
On the way, we made a short stop at the Yankton agency, which we had visited two years before.
For the ordination the Congregational churches of Yankton and Springfield had united in calling the council.
The building is going up—August, 1877—a neat and substantial frame, the material of which was brought up from Yankton by boat.
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