Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A Native American people inhabiting an area along the Missouri River in western North Dakota.
- n. A member of this people.
- n. The Siouan language of this people.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a member of the Sioux people formerly inhabiting an area along the Missouri river in western North Dakota
- n. a Siouan language spoken by the Hidatsa
Etymologies
- Hidatsa, people of the willows. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The name Hidatsa was formerly borne by one of the tribal villages.”
“Hidatsa and Crow were one tribe, and so our language is still, the grammar is still the same, and it's still pretty close.”
“Kandi Mosset, a member of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nations in the state of North Dakota and a representative of the Indigenous Environmental Network, emphatically spoke to the uranium mining and tar sand extraction that happens on and near her native lands.”
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“Early in the eighteenth century they started becoming closely associated with sedentary village tribes of the upper Missouri River, namely The Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara.”
“Before white settler smallpox wiped them out, Max recorded the lives of the Mandans, Arikara, and Hidatsa and the world they inhabited.”
“On this occasion Tasmin found him soon enough, sitting at a filthy table with his plump young Hidatsa wife, Coal.”
“The Hidatsa, to be sure, had stolen her from the Shoshone, but the Hidatsa had not taken the wild out of her, because they were wild themselves.”
“Malgres and the Ponca had discussed killing Skraeling and taking his money and the two young Hidatsa girls he had acquired; but the Ponca advised caution.”
“There had been talk of him on the boat, but the Hidatsa scouts all claimed that he was far out on the prairies, in the midst of many buffalo.”
“Rosa gave Petal a little white cap made from rabbit skins, much like the one the young Hidatsa girl Coal, wife to Toussaint Charbonneau, had made for Monty when he had been an infant.”
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