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unusual facts about Siouan



Cheraw

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

Coharie

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.

Guilford County, 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.

Lumber River

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".

Macro-Siouan languages

In the 19th century, Robert Latham suggested that the Siouan languages are related to the Caddoan and Iroquoian languages.

Maya Hero Twins

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.

Panka

Páⁿka, the name the Ponca, a Native American tribe of the Siouan-language group, call themselves

Terrence Kaufman

Kaufman has produced descriptive and comparative-historical studies of languages of the Mayan, Siouan, Hokan, Uto-Aztecan, Mixe–Zoquean and Oto-Manguean families.

Teton Sioux

Lakota language, a Siouan languages spoken by the Lakota people of the Sioux tribes

Wakenda, Missouri

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.


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