HUNKPAPA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Hunkpapa mean? 

• HUNKPAPA (noun)
  The noun HUNKPAPA has 2 senses:

1. a member of the Siouan people who constituted a division of the Teton Sioux and who formerly lived in the western Dakotas; they were prominent in resisting the white encroachment into the northern Great Plains

2. a Siouan language spoken by the Hunkpapa

  Familiarity information: HUNKPAPA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HUNKPAPA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A member of the Siouan people who constituted a division of the Teton Sioux and who formerly lived in the western Dakotas; they were prominent in resisting the white encroachment into the northern Great Plains

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Hunkpapa" is a kind of...):

Lakota; Teton; Teton Dakota; Teton Sioux (a member of the large western branch of Sioux people which was made up of several groups that lived on the plains)

Instance hyponyms:

Sitting Bull (a chief of the Sioux; took up arms against settlers in the northern Great Plains and against United States Army troops; he was present at the Battle of Little Bighorn (1876) when the Sioux massacred General Custer's troops (1831-1890))

Sense 2

Meaning:

A Siouan language spoken by the Hunkpapa

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Hunkpapa" is a kind of...):

Siouan; Siouan language (a family of North American Indian languages spoken by the Sioux)