Ventres

Among all those tribes, commencing with the Shoshones, the Arapahoes, the gros-Ventres, the Blackfeet, the Piegans, the river crows, the Bloods and Assiniboines, the only ray of light I saw was on the Flathead Reservation at the jesuit mission schools, and there were boys and girls -- fifty boys and fifty girls.

Chris Rodda: A Tale of Two Faith-Based Initiatives 2008

And with them were most of the Cheyennes, Gros Ventres, and Arapahoes.

THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007

Ventres hisce aridi, somnus plerumque parcus et interruptus, somnia absurdissima, turbulenta, corporis tremor, capitis gravedo, strepitus circa aures et visiones ante oculos, ad venerem prodigi.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Our People were imprisoned within the most difficult of the Indian languages, so difficult indeed that no other tribe except one related branch, the Gros Ventres, ever learned to speak it.

Centennial Michener, James 1974

Bible and a few words of song had been given to the Gros-Ventres in their own tongue, and every Sabbath there were attentive Indian listeners, but would there ever be a Gros-Ventre convert?

The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 05, May, 1889 Various

Ventres, and of the motley and picturesque crowd that gathered for communion in the little church at Fort Berthold; but the interesting facts from these fields must be left for other notes.

The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 09, September, 1889 Various

We came to our brothers, the Gros Ventres and Mandans; they received us as brothers, and we all live together in their village.

Three Years on the Plains Observations of Indians, 1867-1870 Edmund B. Tuttle

The Gros Ventres celebrated the goose-dance, to remind the wild geese, as they left in the autumn, that they had had good food all summer, and must come back in the spring.

Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California Caroline C. Leighton

St. Paul's, another offspring of St. Peter's, was established about the same time among the Gros Ventres and Assiniboines on the Fort Belknap Indian

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

He was not more than sixteen when he joined a war-party against the Gros-Ventres and Mandans.

Indian Boyhood 1902