31. What were once allophones in Proto-Siouan have become phonemes in the Omaha Ponca language. 32. The Catawba and other Siouan peoples are believed to have coalesced as individual tribes in the Southeast. 33. Prior to the arrival of Europeans, the Yadkin basin was inhabited by Siouan -speaking tribes. 34. Albert Gallatin ( 1836 ) classified the Catawba as a separate, distinct group among Siouan tribes. 35. In the 1960s and 1970s, Wallace Chafe further explored the link between Siouan and Caddoan languages. 36. This petition was rejected largely on the grounds that Siouan was a language, not a tribe. 37. Local whites intensified harassment of the Waccamaw Siouan Indians after North Carolina ratified this discriminatory state constitution. 38. Researchers have speculated that the Moneton language was part of the Siouan family, close to Tutelo. 39. The Siouan and Tuscarora Indians hunted the area until European settlers arrived in the mid-18th century. 40. The people of Cofitichequi were probably absorbed by nearby Siouan and Iroquoian speakers in the late 17th century.
