Hunkpapa

Other forms: Hunkpapas

Definitions of Hunkpapa

1. noun

   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
2. noun

   a Siouan language spoken by the Hunkpapa
   type of:

   Siouan, Siouan language

   a family of North American Indian languages spoken by the Sioux