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Arikaras

  • plural
    of Arikara.
    Arikara
    noun
    a member of a group of North American Indians of Pawnee origin who now inhabit the Dakota region.

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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

Have seen this sign used by the Arikaras as a tribal designation.

From Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other Peoples And Deaf-Mutes First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-1880, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 263-552 by Garrick Mallery

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

The Arikaras understood this sign, and they afterwards used it in talking to me.

From Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other Peoples And Deaf-Mutes First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-1880, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 263-552 by Garrick Mallery

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