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Sioux (other)
The Sioux (pronounced "''soo''") are a Native American people. Sioux may also refer to: Places in the United States * Sioux, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community * Sioux County (other) * Sioux Township (other) Military * USS ''Sioux'', several ships in the United States Navy * , a Royal Canadian Navy destroyer which served in the Second World War * Bell H-13 Sioux, an American helicopter Transportation * Sioux (passenger train) * Sioux (steamship) Other uses * Sioux language, spoken in the United States and Canada * Siouxsie Sioux, English musician * Sioux barley, a 6-row barley variety See also * Sioux City, Iowa * Sault (other) * Soo (other) * Sue (other) Sue or SUE may refer to: Music * Sue Records, an American record label * ''Sue'' (album), an album by Frazier Chorus * "Sue (Or in a Season of Crime)", a song by David Bowie Places * Sue Islet (Queensland), one of the Torres Straits islan ... * Su (disambigu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sioux
The Sioux or Oceti Sakowin (; Dakota: /otʃʰeːtʰi ʃakoːwĩ/) are groups of Native American tribes and First Nations peoples in North America. The modern Sioux consist of two major divisions based on language divisions: the Dakota and Lakota; collectively they are known as the Očhéthi Šakówiŋ ("Seven Council Fires"). The term "Sioux" is an exonym created from a French transcription of the Ojibwe term "Nadouessioux", and can refer to any ethnic group within the Great Sioux Nation or to any of the nation's many language dialects. Before the 17th century, the Santee Dakota (; "Knife" also known as the Eastern Dakota) lived around Lake Superior with territories in present-day northern Minnesota and Wisconsin. They gathered wild rice, hunted woodland animals and used canoes to fish. Wars with the Ojibwe throughout the 1700s pushed the Dakota into southern Minnesota, where the Western Dakota (Yankton, Yanktonai) and Teton (Lakota) were residing. In the 1800s, the D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
