Hunkpapa
Americannoun
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Hunkpapas,
plural
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Hunkpapa
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Lajimodiere’s appointment is impactful and inspirational because “representation counts at all levels,” said Nicole Donaghy, executive director of the advocacy group North Dakota Native Vote and a Hunkpapa Lakota from the Standing Rock Sioux Nation.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 7, 2023
Her father was Hunkpapa Lakota, her mother white.
From Salon ● Jun. 29, 2022
Two years prior, Sitting Bull had asked her, according to her own telling, to give Hunkpapa Lakota women a future.
From Slate ● Oct. 25, 2021
In its first two years, there was a single company of infantry stationed there; they withstood relentless attacks from Sitting Bull’s Hunkpapa Sioux, who were determined to eradicate them.
From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 2015
Crazy Horse joined a big, tall man named Gall, a Hunkpapa Lakota war leader.
From "In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse" by Joseph Marshall III
On the Missouri River at the middle north line of South Dakota there was the Standing Rock reservation, where lived Sitting Bull and many of the Hunkpapas and Oglalas whom he had led.
From Boys' Book of Indian Warriors and Heroic Indian Women by Sabin, Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand)
Chief Gall, a fine man, of the Hunkpapas, was head war chief; his aide was Crow King.
From Boys' Book of Indian Warriors and Heroic Indian Women by Sabin, Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand)
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