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Sioux

[ soo ]

noun

plural Sioux


Sioux

/ 蝉耻藧 /

noun

  1. Sioux蝉耻藧蝉耻藧z a member of a group of North American Indian peoples formerly ranging over a wide area of the Plains from Lake Michigan to the Rocky Mountains
  2. any of the Siouan languages
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Sioux

  1. A common name for the Dakota people, a tribe of Native Americans inhabiting the northern Great Plains in the nineteenth century. They were famed as warriors and frequently took up arms in the late nineteenth century to oppose the settlement of their hunting grounds and sacred places. In 1876, Sioux warriors, led by Chief Sitting Bull , and commanded in the field by Chief Crazy Horse , overwhelmed the United States cavalry at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. ( See Custer's last stand .) A group of Sioux under Chief Big Foot were massacred by United States troops at Wounded Knee in 1890.
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of Sioux1

An Americanism dating back to 1755鈥65; from North American French, shortening of earlier Nadouessioux from Ojibwe (Ottawa dialect) 苍补路迟辞飞别路蝉蝉颈飞(补办) (plural), from unattested Proto-Algonquian 苍补路迟辞飞别路丑蝉颈飞-, derivative of unattested 苍补路迟辞飞别路飞补 鈥滻roquoian,鈥 probably literally, 鈥渟peaker of a foreign language鈥) + French -x plural marker
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of Sioux1

from French, shortened from Nadowessioux, from Chippewa Nadoweisiw
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Protests against the pipeline near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation drew thousands, but Greenpeace argued it did not lead the demonstration and that the lawsuit threatened free speech.

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After that, she was supposed to perform Monday in Sioux Falls, Wednesday in Milwaukee and Thursday in Des Moines.

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鈥淭he Sioux Chef鈥檚 Indigenous Kitchen,鈥 which was released in 2017 from University of Minnesota Press in Minneapolis, allows readers to explore Sherman鈥檚 work anc culinary a little closer to home.

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鈥淚 had to put myself in a bubble of confidence because otherwise I would have been a puddle on the floor,鈥 said Hahn, who channeled 鈥渢hat gender-less quality of 鈥80s rockers鈥 like Siouxsie Sioux.

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The Lakota Sioux of the High Plains put up a heroic resistance to the European immigrants and their descendants who kept coming and coming, prospectors and settlers and soldiers.

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