Hunkpapa

American  

[huhngk-pah-puh] / ˈhʌŋk pɑ pə /

noun

plural

Hunkpapas,

plural

Hunkpapa

1. a member of a North American Indian people belonging to the Teton branch of the Dakota.

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Example Sentences

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

So is an image, carved in wood some 30 or 40 years later by a Hunkpapa Lakota artist of a horse apparently dying in battle.

From New York Times • Mar. 12, 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