Sioux Submitted Place Names

Sioux names are used by the Sioux (Lakota and Dakota) people of the central United States and Canada.

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Submitted names are contributed by users of this website. The accuracy of these name definitions cannot be guaranteed.

Arapaho (Settlement) Sioux
Arapaho is probably from Hidatsa arúpahu, or a cognate word in another Siouan language. Apparently borrowed from a widespread Siouan designation for one or more Arapaho bands, compare, in Siouan languages: Crow arappaho, Hidatsa arúpahu, Mandan "Arrapahó", Omaha-Ponca aðábahu, and Kansa aropwahì... [more]

Bdoté (Island & Body of Water) Sioux
From Dakota bdoté meaning "place where two or more bodies of water converge".

Kaposia (Settlement) Sioux
A Dakota settlement in Minnesota. From Dakota kaposia meaning "light, light-footed".

Mde Lyedan (Body of Water) Sioux
A lake in Minnesota. From Dakota mde lyedan meaning "lake which speaks".

Okoboji (Body of Water) Sioux
Legend tells the lake was named for Chief Okoboji; meaning either ‘place of rest’ or ‘reeds or rushes,’-preferred.... [more]

Omaha (Settlement) Sioux
Siouan people of northeastern Nebraska, 1804, Maha, perhaps from Omaha umaha, perhaps literally "upstream (people), against the flow." The Nebraska city was founded in 1854.

Owámniyomni (Other) Sioux
A waterfall near Minneapolis, Minnesota, the only natural major waterfall on the Mississippi River before the construction of a series of locks. From Dakota owámniyomni, "whirlpool".

Wazi Oju (River) Sioux
A river in Minnesota. From Dakota Wazi Oju meaning "place of pines".

Wita (Body of Water) English (American), Sioux
A lake in Minnesota. From Dakota wita meaning "island".

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