Yanktonai

[ yangk-tuh-nahy ]

noun

, plural Yank·to·nais, (especially collectively) Yank·to·nai.

1. a member of one of two tribes of Dakota Indian people who inhabited the northern Great Plains in the 18th and 19th centuries. Compare Yankton ( def 1 ).

Example Sentences

Oscar Howe was a Yanktonai Dakota artist who operated outside any neat categorical box the art world tried to place him in.

From New York Times

On Sept. 3, 1863, General Alfred Sully’s troops attacked a tipi camp of Yanktonai, Dakota, Hunkpapa Lakota and Blackfeet as part of a military mission to punish participants of the Dakota Conflict, according to the State Historical Society of North Dakota.

From Washington Times

The money will go to a retrospective exhibition of work by the painter Oscar Howe, who was a member of the Yanktonai Dakota tribe.

From New York Times

The tribe, made up of Hunkpapa Lakota and Yanktonai Dakota, lives in the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, which covers parts of North and South Dakota.

From National Geographic

Treaties— of Greenville, westward migration following, 42 of peace between Sioux and Chippewas, 15 place of, between Ojibway and U. S. Government, 16 with Tetons, Yankton and Yanktonai, 57 Twenty-Four, village of the, a former Kansa town, 94 Two Kettles.

From Project Gutenberg