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  • With the Teton Sioux in the lead they ultimately dominated a region stretching from the Platte River to the Yellowstone.

    Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011

  • With the Teton Sioux in the lead they ultimately dominated a region stretching from the Platte River to the Yellowstone.

    Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011

  • THE steamer was almost in sight of the Mandan encampments—another day would have put them there—when the scuffle occurred with the Teton Sioux, six of whom Captain Aitken had taken aboard as a courtesy three days earlier.

    The Berrybender Narratives Larry McMurtry 2004

  • He and his party would be among the river Indians soon—the Arikaras, then the Mandans, plus whatever tribes might have come to the river to trade—the Teton Sioux perhaps.

    The Berrybender Narratives Larry McMurtry 2004

  • With his friend and partner, Captain Lewis, he had just managed to bluff the furious Teton Sioux, who might well have made, at the outset, an end to all of them, had a misstep occurred.

    The Berrybender Narratives Larry McMurtry 2004

  • The Teton Sioux that might have killed him would be tamed or broken.

    The Berrybender Narratives Larry McMurtry 2004

  • In 1871, despite the protest of Red Cloud and other leading chiefs, the Northern Pacific railway was constructed along the south bank of the Yellowstone and several new posts built for its protection, and war was on again with the Teton Sioux, Cheyenne, and part of the Arapaho.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

  • In the meantime the Teton Sioux, pressing westward, were gradually pushing the Arikara (Ree) up the Missouri, and by acquiring horses from the plains tribes had become metamorphosed from canoe men and gatherers of wild rice into an equestrian race of nomad buffalo hunters.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

  • Thus he associated himself in his maiden battle with the wizard of Indian warfare, and Hump, who was then at the height of his own career, pronounced Crazy Horse the coming warrior of the Teton Sioux.

    Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains Charles Alexander Eastman 1898

  • Young Crazy Horse was twenty-one years old when all the Teton Sioux chiefs (the western or plains dwellers) met in council to determine upon their future policy toward the invader.

    Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains Charles Alexander Eastman 1898

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