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HUNKPAPA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A Siouan language spoken by the Hunkpapa
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Hunkpapa" is a kind of...):
Siouan; Siouan language (a family of North American Indian languages spoken by the Sioux)
Sense 2
Meaning:
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
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Hunkpapa" is a kind 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)
Instance hyponyms:
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))
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