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Hunkpapa

hunk·papa

uncommon

noun

1.

a member of the Siouan people formerly living in the western Dakotas; the were prominent in resisting the white encroachment into the northern Great Plains

2.

Origin

From Lakota Húŋkpapȟa (“head of the circle”).

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