Sioux

Sioux
The Sioux Native American tribes were made of small bands of woodland peoples that came to North America from Asia. Their straight black hair and other features seemed to connect them to the Chinese and Japanese. They first lived west of the Great Lakes in the Mille Lacs region of present day Minnesota. Most were pushed west into South Dakota by other tribes. By 1750, the Sioux made up some 30,000 people in the northern Great Plains. They dominated this region for the next century.
The name Sioux is an abbreviation of the French spelling of the name Nadouessioux, meaning little snakes, giving to then by neighboring Chippewa enemies. The Sioux are from the Siouan language group. They call themselves Dakota, Lakota, or Nakota, according to dialect, meaning allies. The Sioux language is spoken in three principal dialects, Santee, or eastern; Yankton, or middle; and Teton, or western. These dialects differ mainly in the exchange of the letters d, n, and l.
The Sioux Native...