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

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

From Seattle Times • Mar. 24, 2023

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