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I knew a man named Sue, a distinguished attorney in my home town, but he spelled it Sioux, in the city of Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
9 5 36,700 10Missouri Asbury 1 16,190 11 James River 5 4,850 12 Labadie 1 40,110 13 2 37,710 14 3 40,310 154 35,940 16 Montrose 1 7,390 17 2 8,200 183 10,090 19 New Madrid 1 28,240 202 32,480 21 Sibley 3 15,580 22 Sioux 1 22,570 232 23,690 24 Thomas Hill 1 10,250 25 2 19,390 26 New Hampshire Merrimack 1 10,190 27 2 22,000 28 New 29 Jersey B.L.
' When French explorers came upon the name, they knew enough Sioux to know the name meant `board,' so they used a translated version of the Indian name and called it la Riviére Platte . English speakers adopted the French name and talked about the Platte River . They named one of the towns on its banks North Platte . But when the state applied for admission to the Union in 1867, it was under the original Indian name which they spelled Nebraska .
Ojibwa nadoweoisiw little snake > Sioux
For example, the Sioux Indians (they spoke Omaha) called a river in the central part of the United States Niboapka . Thomas Gasque, editor of Names points out that this word comes from ni `water' and bthaska `flat (like a board), spreading out.