Sisseton

American  

[sis-i-tuhn, -tn] / ˈsɪs ɪ tən, -tn /

noun

plural

Sissetons,

plural

Sisseton

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

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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 • May 13, 2024

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 • Oct. 18, 2023

Thompson, of the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate and Mdewakanton Dakota people, said inflation is “really impacting the food systems we have here,” which include dozens of Indigenous, local and organic food producers.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 22, 2022

Then one evening at a rest spot they found Santee Sioux from the Santee Reservation and Dakota from the Lake Traverse Reservation, known colloquially as Sisseton, waiting to join, and spirits soared.

From Reuters • Aug. 2, 2018

By May 9, it was 109 in Sisseton, South Dakota.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown