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"After repeated defeats, the band finally retired to their present position on the Red river, where they form a tribe."

"Yanktons of the Plains, or Big Devils; who rove on the heads of the Sioux, Jacques, and Red river; the most numerous of all the tribes…"

The Travels of Marco Polo
by Marco Polo, da Pisa Rusticiano

"…the inhabitants of the Yünnan province have easy access to the ocean by the Red River, or Sung Ka."