siouan in a sentence
Examples
- The Siouan languages he considered " mildly polysynthetic " and agglutinative-fusional.
- They arrived shortly before the English settlers, and displaced the resident Siouan tribes.
- Most of the Siouan peoples had migrated into the upper Midwest before European encounter.
- They added Saponi to the tribal name in 1979 to reflect their Siouan ancestry.
- The Assiniboine referred to themselves as Nakota, which meant they were Siouan speakers.
- He became the foremost expert on the languages and culture of southern Siouan peoples.
- A limited amount of information exists tying the present tribe to its Siouan ancestors.
- The major language groups inhabiting the West Virginia region were the Ohio Valley Siouan.
- Siouan language tribes such as the Moneton had also been recorded in the area previously.
- The Catawba were once considered one of the most powerful Southeastern Siouan-speaking tribes.