Synonyms:
Sioux, Siouan
Meaning: a member of a group of North American Indian peoples who spoke a Siouan language and who ranged from Lake Michigan to the Rocky Mountains
Usage examples
I was a little over four years old at the time of the "Sioux massacre" in Minnesota.
This city, Caracas, is about as large as Sioux City, Iowa, but to get to it is some job.
"There is no end to the fancies entertained by the Sioux concerning thunder," observes Mrs. Eastman.
The next year he was stationed at Fort Niobrara, in Nebraska, in command of the Sioux Indian Scouts.
Come on, ye scut!" And down they went, full tilt at the Sioux, yet heading to cover and reach the beleaguered party in the hollow.
When the Cariboo fever reached the East, the public there had heard neither of the Indian massacres in Oregon nor that the Sioux were on the war-path in Dakota.
The old plainsman who acted as guide bethought him of a ruse: he hoisted a flag of the Hudson's Bay Company and waved it in the face of the Sioux without speaking.
The story is told that as they slowly made their way in ox-carts up the river-bank, a band of horsemen swept over the horizon, and the travellers found themselves surrounded by Sioux warriors.
In 1890 he was shifted north to take the field against the Sioux Indians, in South Dakota, and in the Battle of Wounded Knee he had a considerable taste of burnt powder, where the tribe that had massacred General Custer and his band was practically wiped out.