Arkansas and Kansas the name "Kansas" is a Siouan Indian word. It's from the tribal name Kansa, which means "south wind people." shares the same french and native American origin as Arkansas. Look up both origin of their names.
Mahas is one of the many versions of the tribal name "Omahas", since early explorers recorded native words as they thought they sounded. The Big Sioux River in Iowa was once called The River of the Mahas.The tribe's real name was U.mon.hon, meaning "upsteam" and they speak a Siouan language related to Ponca and Quapaw.
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the Sioux Indian tribes actually refer to three distinct groups of Plains Natives...all share similar dilects of the siouan language..."Referred to collectively by outsiders as Sioux, a French rendition of the Ottawa name na•towe•ssiwak, meaning 'enemy,' the Sioux call themselves Lakota or Dakota, depending on dialect, signifying 'allies.'"edited out > well they were called the Indians but then later changed the name to SIOUX cause there was one reason why this name has been changed tho SIOUX!
It depends on the tribe. Do you have a specific tribe in mind?
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The Algonquian but there were also Siouan and Iroqjois.
There are multiple tribes that speak Siouan languages, including the Dakota, Lakota, and Nakota tribes in the Northern Plains, as well as the Osage, Omaha, and Quapaw tribes in the Midwest. Each tribe typically has its own dialect of the Siouan language.
The Siouan Indians live in the region from Virginia to Florida and depended on the land to make clothes houses and other important things.
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The Croatan tribe had settlements on Roanoke Island, where the Lost Colony was established in the late 16th century. The Croatan were a Siouan-speaking tribe that had interactions with the English colonists who settled in the area.
The Sioux Indians actually came to North America from the continent of Asia about 30,000 years ago. There is no one "Sioux" tribe. There are many Native American tribes whose commonality is the Siouan language. Tribes which spoke the Siouan language ranged from Saskatchewan in Canada, through the Dakotas, Minnesota, Iowa, and even in Mississippi, North and South Carolina, and Virginia.
Native American tribes in the Eastern Woodlands spoke languages in the Siouan, Algonquian, Iriquoian, Muskogean language families.
Piedmont Is the Region In Which Siouan Was Spoken.
Kansas is named for the nomadic tribe that lived in that area; the Kaw or Kanza people (People of the south wind).
In Siouan languages, "abundance" is expressed differently depending on the specific language. For example, in Lakota Dakota (a Siouan language), "abundance" can be translated as "čhaŋnúŋpa," while in Ho-Chunk (another Siouan language), it may be translated as "wazígare."