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🗣️ A Siouan language 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 A Lakota group
Hunkpapa

Hunkpapa

9.9
A member of a Lakota group from the Dakotas
  • noun
translation icon : hunkpapa
  • Many Hunkpapa descendants continue to live in the Dakotas today.

Examples

  • Sitting Bull was one of the most famous leaders of the Hunkpapa.

  • The Hunkpapa played a major role in the Battle of the Little Bighorn.

  • The Hunkpapa people have a rich cultural heritage.

  • Many Hunkpapas participated in the Ghost Dance movement.

  • Many Hunkpapa descendants continue to live in the Dakotas today.

  • Sitting Bull was one of the most famous leaders of the Hunkpapa.

  • The Hunkpapa played a major role in the Battle of the Little Bighorn.

Synonyms

Teton
vsHunkpapa
1 9.6

A Native American person from the western Sioux group on the Great Plains

is a smaller subgroup within that larger western division
Teton Sioux
vsHunkpapa
9.4

A person from the western Sioux group of Native American people who live on the plains

is a smaller subgroup within that western branch
Teton Dakota
vsHunkpapa
9.9

A person from a western Sioux group who lived on the Great Plains

is a smaller subgroup within that large western branch

Compounds

Hunkpapa language
9.9

A Native American language spoken by the Hunkpapa people of the Lakota Sioux

Surface Forms

Hunkpapa singular
Hunkpapas plural

Etymology

The word Hunkpapa comes from the Lakota language and is often translated as 'those at the head of the camp'. So it names the group of Lakota people who were known by that place in the camp and who still use the name today.