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Dakota

(Encyclopedia) Dakota: see Sioux.

Lakota

(Encyclopedia) Lakota: see Sioux.

Nakota

(Encyclopedia) Nakota: see Sioux.

Little Sioux

(Encyclopedia) Little SiouxLittle Siouxs&oomacr; [key], river, 221 mi (356 km) long, rising in SW Minn. and flowing generally SW across NW Iowa to the Missouri River S of Sioux City. Flowing…

Yanton

(Encyclopedia) Yanton and Yanktonnai: see Sioux.

Missouri, river, United States

(Encyclopedia) Missouri, river, c.2,565 mi (4,130 km) long (including its Jefferson-Beaverhead-Red Rock headstream), the longest river of the United States and the principal tributary of the…

Ghost Dance

(Encyclopedia) Ghost Dance, central ritual of the messianic religion instituted in the late 19th cent. by a Paiute named Wovoka. The religion prophesied the peaceful end of the westward expansion of…