Siouan

• “The term Siouan is the adjective denoting the "Sioux" Indians and cognate tribes.”

  The Siouan Indians

• “Their languages are part of a family that linguistic anthropologists call Siouan or Siouan-Catawban, which is still spoken on the Great Plains of the United States and parts of southern Canada.”

  Saying goodbye to my "Fargo" accent

• “It stands apart from just about anything I've read and the language used, seamlessly fusing English with bits of a Siouan tongue, as Paha Sapa gradually becomes more familiar with the white man's world and the white man's nature.”

  Archive 2010-04-01

• “Descended mainly from Cheraw and related Siouan speakers, the Lumbee have occupied what is now Robeson County since the eighteenth century.”

  Simon & Schuster: Spider Bones

• “The Catawba Nation was actually a military alliance of several Siouan tribes and remnants of tribes who had been decimated by war and disease, and joined the Catawba.”

  History of American Women

• “Members of this tribe still live near the South Carolina coast, and are represented by the Chicora-Siouan Indian Nation near Andrews, South Carolina, and the Chicora-Waccamaw near Conway.”

  History of American Women

• “After the Yamasee War they became known as the Catawba, which means "cut off," apparently referring to their being cut off from other Siouan tribes.”

  History of American Women

• “Three major language families were represented in North Carolina: Iroquoian, Siouan, and Algonquian.”

  History of American Women

• “The Catawba were a Siouan-speaking tribe of the Piedmont area at the time of the first European contact.”

  History of American Women

• “In 1719 the Comanche were mentioned under their Siouan name living in what is now west Kansas.”

  Lords of the Southern Plains

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