Hidatsa

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Hi·dat·sa

H0187550 (hē-dät′sä)n. pl. Hidatsa or Hi·dat·sas 1. A member of a Native American people inhabiting an area along the Missouri River in western North Dakota.2. The Siouan language of this people. In both senses also called Gros Ventre.

[Hidatsa hirá·ca (originally the name of the largest division of the Hidatsa people), of unknown origin (although traditionally thought to be derived from wirahacitatí, willow tree houses).]

Hi•dat•sa

(hiˈdɑt sɑ)

n., pl. -sas, (esp. collectively) -sa. 1. a member of an American Indian people of North Dakota. 2. the Siouan language of the Hidatsa.

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Noun	1.	Hidatsa - a member of the Sioux people formerly inhabiting an area along the Missouri river in western North DakotaGros VentreSiouan, Sioux - a member of a group of North American Indian peoples who spoke a Siouan language and who ranged from Lake Michigan to the Rocky Mountains
	2.	Hidatsa - a Siouan language spoken by the HidatsaGros VentreSiouan language, Siouan - a family of North American Indian languages spoken by the Sioux

Hidatsa

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Hidatsa

(hēdät`sä), Native North Americans, also known as the Minitari and the Gros Ventre. Their language belongs to the Siouan branch of the Hokan-Siouan linguistic stock (see Native American languagesNative American languages,
languages of the native peoples of the Western Hemisphere and their descendants. A number of the Native American languages that were spoken at the time of the European arrival in the New World in the late 15th cent.
..... Click the link for more information. ). After their separation from the CrowCrow,
indigenous people of North America whose language belongs to the Siouan branch of the Hokan-Siouan linguistic stock (see Native American languages) and who call themselves the Absaroka, or bird people.
..... Click the link for more information. , with whom they were united before the historic period, they occupied several agricultural villages on the upper Missouri River in North Dakota and were in close alliance with the occupants of other villages, the ArikaraArikara
, Native North Americans whose language belongs to the Caddoan branch of the Hokan-Siouan linguistic stock (see Native American languages). Archaeological evidence shows that they occupied the banks of the upper Missouri River since at least the 14th cent.
..... Click the link for more information. and the MandanMandan
, indigenous people of North America whose language belongs to the Siouan branch of the Hokan-Siouan linguistic stock (see Native American languages). The Mandan were a sedentary tribe of the Plains area and were culturally connected with their neighbors on the Missouri
..... Click the link for more information. . The Hidatsa villages, with circular earth lodges, were enclosed by an earthen wall. Among other Hidatsa traits were the cultivation of corn and an annual organized buffalo hunt. They had a complex social organization and elaborate ceremonies, including the sun dance. After the smallpox epidemic of 1837, they moved up the Missouri and established themselves close to the trading post of Fort Berthold. Together with the Arikara and Mandan, many Hidatsa reside on the Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota. There were some 1,500 Hidatsa in the United States in 1990.

Bibliography

See A. W. Bowers, Hidatsa Social and Ceremonial Organization (1965).

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noun a member of the Sioux people formerly inhabiting an area along the Missouri river in western North Dakota

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noun a Siouan language spoken by the Hidatsa

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