Gros Ventre

G0279500 (grō′ vänt′)n. pl. Gros Ventre or Gros Ventres (vänt′) 1. a. A member of a Native American people formerly inhabiting the plains of northern Montana and southern Saskatchewan, with a present-day population in north central Montana.b. The Algonquian language of the Atsina, dialectally related to Arapaho. Also called Atsina.2. See Hidatsa.

[French, big belly : gros, big + ventre, belly (from an indigenous sign-language gesture designating this people that suggested a big belly).]

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Noun	1.	Gros Ventre - a member of the Sioux people formerly inhabiting an area along the Missouri river in western North DakotaHidatsaSiouan, 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.	Gros Ventre - a Siouan language spoken by the HidatsaHidatsaSiouan language, Siouan - a family of North American Indian languages spoken by the Sioux

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(grō văN`trə) [Fr.,=big belly], name used by the French for two quite distinct Native North American groups. One was the Atsina, a detached band of the ArapahoArapaho
, Native North Americans of the Plains whose language belongs to the Algonquian branch of the Algonquian-Wakashan linguistic stock (see Native American languages).
..... Click the link for more information. , whose language belongs to the Algonquian branch of the Algonquian-Wakashan 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. ); the other was the HidatsaHidatsa
, 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 languages).
..... Click the link for more information. , whose language belongs to the Siouan branch of the Hokan-Siouan linguistic stock. The Native American sign language designated the two groups by somewhat similar gestures on the torso, one referring to the Hidatsa chest tattoos and the other, designating the Atsina, conveying the meaning of hunger. In the 18th cent. the Atsina roamed the plains between the Missouri and the Saskatchewan rivers under the protection of the powerful Blackfoot to the west. Today the Atsina live with the Assiniboin on the Fort Belknap Reservation in Montana, established in 1888. There were some 2,800 Atsina in the United States in 1990.

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See R. Flannery, The Gros Ventres of Montana (2 vol., 1953–57).

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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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