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Hunkpapa

DEFINITIONS OF: Hunkpapa

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n a member of the Siouan people who constituted a division of the Teton Sioux and who formerly lived in the western Dakotas; they were prominent in resisting the white encroachment into the northern Great Plains

Examples:
Sitting Bull
a chief of the Sioux; took up arms against settlers in the northern Great Plains and against United States Army troops; he was present at the Battle of Little Bighorn (1876) when the Sioux massacred General Custer's troops (1831-1890)
Type of:
Lakota, Teton, Teton Dakota, Teton Sioux
a member of the large western branch of Sioux people which was made up of several groups that lived on the plains

n a Siouan language spoken by the Hunkpapa

Type of:
Siouan, Siouan language
a family of North American Indian languages spoken by the Sioux
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