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Big Sioux River

noun

A river that rises in northeastern South Dakota and flows southward to join the Missouri River at Sioux City, Iowa.

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... a rocky gorge that extends for three miles along Big Sioux River, Iowa, was hewn through the stone by a spirit that took the form of a dragon. Such were its size and ferocity that the Indians avoided the place, lest they should ...

— Myths And Legends Of Our Own Land, Complete • Charles M. Skinner

... thirty fellow-tribesmen who were of like mind with himself, he set out for the Big Sioux River to take up a homestead like a white man. Far from urging it, Government officials disapproved and discouraged this brave undertaking. The Indians selected a choice location, forty miles above what is now the beautiful little city of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and here they established the first Sioux ...

— The Indian Today - The Past and Future of the First American • Charles A. Eastman