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Yankton

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Yank·ton  (yngktn)
n. pl. Yankton or Yank·tons
1. A division of the Sioux people formerly inhabiting northern Minnesota, now located mainly in the eastern Dakotas. The Yankton and Yanktonai occupy a middle position between the Santee and Teton divisions of the Sioux.
2. A member of this division.


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Hunt and his party were sojourning at the village of the Omahas, three Sioux Indians of the Yankton Alma tribe arrived, bringing unpleasant intelligence.
Astoria or Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Irving, Washington View in context
And the Yanktons, and the burnt-wood Tetons, who live in the elbow of the river, 'with muddy water,' do they not come into the lodges of the Loups and smoke?
The Prairie by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context
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