Yankton
Americannoun
plural
Yanktons,plural
Yankton-
a member of one of two tribes of Dakota Indian people who inhabited the northern Great Plains in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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a town in SE South Dakota.
Example Sentences
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But apparently no one said where exactly, because Boritt soon set out for Yankton, S.D., where he graduated from the now-defunct Yankton College in 1962.
Shortly after arriving in Yankton, in 1959, Boritt sent away for a pamphlet of Lincoln’s speeches, published to celebrate Lincoln’s 150th birthday that year.
The Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate and Yankton Sioux tribes on Friday passed separate resolutions to prohibit Ms Noem from setting foot in their territory.
From BBC
The Yankton Sioux Tribe voted Friday to ban Noem from their land in southeastern South Dakota just a few days after the Sisseton-Wahpeton Ovate tribe took the same action.
From Seattle Times
Army Corps of Engineers increased the water flow at a Missouri River dam on the Nebraska-South Dakota border near Yankton to reduce the chance of ice jams forming.
From Seattle Times
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