Arikara
Americannoun
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Arikaras,
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Arikara
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a member of a group of North American Indians of Pawnee origin who now inhabit the Dakota region.
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the Caddoan language spoken by the Arikara.
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The Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation announced the deal Friday but didn’t disclose how much it paid.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 10, 2023
Carla Fredericks, Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara, is chief executive officer of The Christensen Fund, a $300 million foundation.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 23, 2022
However, the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation on the Fort Berthold reservation has expressed support for the North Dakota map, which places Fort Berthold in its own district instead of dividing it.
From Salon ● Mar. 19, 2022
The rhythm that the Arikara, the Hidatsa and later the Lakota and Dakota followed when they used these lands as their summer hunting grounds, following herds of bison.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 11, 2021
Some of the other panels were about the enemies of the Lakota and Cheyenne: the Crow and Arikara scouts who were with the Long Knives that day.
From "In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse" by Joseph Marshall III
Fearing that the Arikaras would find the party if they stayed, Henry left two men—probably, though not definitely, Jim Bridger and a companion named Fitzpatrick—with Glass, to bury him when he inevitably died.
From Slate ● Dec. 23, 2015
He was eventually killed, apparently by the Arikaras, near the Missouri River, in 1833.
From Slate ● Dec. 23, 2015
After the exploration by Captain Meriwether Lewis and his friend Lieutenant Clark, the fur-hunters were the Americans who opened the trails into the country of the Sioux, the Arikaras, the Blackfeet, the Crows and all.
From Boys' Book of Frontier Fighters by Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin
Have seen this sign used by the Arikaras as a tribal designation.
On this boundary line between the Sioux and their upper neighbors, the party met a band of Cheyennes and another of Ricaras, or Arikaras.
From First Across the Continent The story of the exploring expedition of Lewis and Clark in 1804-5-6 by Noah Brooks
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