nadowaysioux

Updated: June 20, 2025

It was the name the allied North-Western tribes gave themselves. But their neighbours called them Nadowaysioux, which means "enemies." The white people, however, shortened it to Sioux, and North Dakota is sometimes called the Sioux State. Both North and South Dakota were formed out of the Louisiana Purchase. In 1861 they had been organised as the territory of Dakota.

H. E. (Henrietta Elizabeth) Marshall - This Country of Ours