Cheraw people (variously called Saraw, Suali, or Xuala), a tribe of Siouan-speaking Amerindians who historically lived in Virginia and North Carolina, in the future southeastern United States
Historians generally contend that the Coharie are descendants of the Iroquoian-speaking Neusiok and Coree, as well as the Iroquoian Tuscarora, and the Siouan Waccamaw, who occupied what is now the central portion of North Carolina.
At the time of European encounter, the inhabitants of the area that became Guilford County were a Siouan-speaking people called the Saura.
In 2009, leaders of the state-recognized Lumbee tribe, based in Robeson County, North Carolina, passed an resolution asking the legislature to return the river to its ancestral name of Lumbee which was Siouan for "Dark Water".
In the 19th century, Robert Latham suggested that the Siouan languages are related to the Caddoan and Iroquoian languages.
Red Horn's Sons, part of the Siouan traditional legends of the deity Red Horn, have been shown to have some interesting analogies with the Maya Hero Twins mythic cycle by the scholar Robert L. Hall.
Páⁿka, the name the Ponca, a Native American tribe of the Siouan-language group, call themselves
Kaufman has produced descriptive and comparative-historical studies of languages of the Mayan, Siouan, Hokan, Uto-Aztecan, Mixe–Zoquean and Oto-Manguean families.
Lakota language, a Siouan languages spoken by the Lakota people of the Sioux tribes
The community was founded in 1869 and is named after the Siouan name for Gods River on account of abundance of game on its banks and fish in the stream.