Arikara
Americannoun
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Arikaras,
plural
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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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A member of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation digs into a decades-long mystery: how 15 intercontinental ballistic missiles came to be siloed on her ancestral lands.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 14, 2023
Additional research showed that flaring rates on Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation lands atop the oil-rich Bakken formation were extremely high compared to public and tribal lands outside of North Dakota.
From Salon ● Feb. 7, 2023
Mark Fox, tribal chairman of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation, welcomed the change, telling The Bismarck Tribune that the slur “really causes serious and strong emotions and resistance to that term.”
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 12, 2023
Ms. White, a painter, gallery owner and a member of the Arikara tribe, said she felt let down by female elected leaders in South Dakota, which is led by Gov. Kristi Noem, a Republican.
From New York Times ● Jun. 24, 2022
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
He was eventually killed, apparently by the Arikaras, near the Missouri River, in 1833.
From Slate ● Dec. 23, 2015
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
Joshua Pilcher, president of the Missouri Fur Company, joined him; General Ashley and Major Henry met him with other men; four or five hundred Sioux enlisted—the Sioux hated the Arikaras.
From Boys' Book of Frontier Fighters by Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin
At the commencement of the winter the Arikaras leave their village in quest of buffalo, which seldom approach near enough to be killed in the vicinity of their cabins.
From Villages of the Algonquian, Siouan, and Caddoan Tribes West of the Mississippi by David Ives Bushnell
They traveled across country, through central Wyoming, and struck the Platte; paddled down the Platte in hide boats that they made—and ran right into the Arikaras.
From Boys' Book of Frontier Fighters by Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin
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