SIOUAN

Mississippi River Chiwere: þMissouri, Iowa-Oto, Winnebago (Hocak) Dakota: Dakota (Santee, Yankton), Lakota (Teton), Nakota (Stoney, Yanktonais) Dhegiha: Osage, Quapaw, Omaha-Ponca, Kansa Mandan Missouri Valley: Crow, Hidatsa Southeastern: þBiloxi, þOfo, þTutelo, þCatawba Missouri centered in Missouri, Iowa-Oto in Iowa, Winnebago in Wisconsin; Dakotan languages in S. & N. Dakota, Wyoming, Saskatchewan; Dhegiha languages in Missouri, Kansas, Iowa; Hidatsa in N. Dakota, Crow in N. Dakota and Montana; Biloxi, Ofo, Tutelo in Mississippi, Catawba and several other completely extinct and virtually unknown Siouan languages in Virginia and the Carolinas.

IROQUOIAN

Northern Huron: þHuron, þErie, þPetun, þWenro, þWyandot Iroquois: Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Seneca, Cayuga, þKwedech, þAndaste (=Susquehannock), þNeutral Tuscarora, þNottoway Southern: Cherokee The Five Nations languages (Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Seneca, Cayuga) were originally spoken in New York State, some speakers now in Quebec, Ontario, Oklahoma. The other Northern languages were spoken in Ontario and Ohio around the Great Lakes, and Pennsylvania. Cherokee was originally spoken in North Carolina and Georgia, now also in Oklahoma.

CADDOAN

Northern: Wichita, þKitsai, Pawnee, Arikara Caddo Caddo was spoken in Arkansas, Louisiana, and east Texas; Wichita and Kitsai were centered in Kansas, Pawnee in Nebraska, Arikara in the Dakotas. The few remaining speakers of these languages now live primarily in Oklahoma. Probably Siouan, Caddoan, and Iroquoian, as well as the isolate Yuchi, originally spoken in N. Carolina and now in Oklahoma, are related to one another.