Siouan

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• The story behind the names "Cherokee Indians of Robeson County" and "Siouan Indians of the Lumber River" illustrates how these outsider categories of knowledge intersect with Indians' own agendas and priorities.

  Academic text (2009)

• The Lumbee ancestors drifted from location to location down the Atlantic seaboard from Virginia to South Carolina, and along the way, they took on remnants of Eastern Siouan tribes.

  Academic text (1999)

• One group pursued recognition as "Siouan Indians of Robeson County."

  Academic text (1999)

• Malinda's brother Joseph Brooks was the spokesman for the Siouan Council, the elected body that represented Siouan Indians in Robeson County to the federal government.

  Academic text (2009)

• My grandfather, Foy Cummings, was a member of the Siouan group that advocated for recognition in the 1930s.

  Academic text (2009)

• A group of Indians formed a business committee and then a representative tribal council under the name "Siouan Indians of Lumber River." The council began lobbying Congress and the BIA for recognition.

  Academic text (2009)

• Swanton argued that the Indians of Robeson County were "descended mainly from certain Siouan tribes, of which the most prominent were the Cheraw and Keyauwee."

  Academic text (1995)

• In the 1930s, the BIA proposed a new name—"Siouan Indians of the Lumber River"—to address another concern over legitimacy.

  Academic text (2009)

• At the turn of the sixteenth century, the indigenous populations of northeastern North America were either Algonquian, Northern Iroquoian, or Siouan speakers (c.f. Trigger 1978).

  Academic text (1992)

• Many tribes in the southeastern United States identify as Siouan, acknowledging their shared cultural heritage.

Compounds

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Siouan language

• Specialized

9.9

A group of Native American languages that the Sioux and related tribes speak in central North America

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