Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of a Native American people formerly inhabiting the Missouri River valley from Kansas into the Dakotas and now located in western North Dakota. Traditional Arikara life was based on agriculture and trade with the Plains Indians to the west.
- noun The Caddoan language of the Arikara.
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- noun a member of the Caddo people who formerly lived in the Dakotas west of the Missouri river
- noun the Caddoan language spoken by the Arikara
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Examples
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According to Omaha tradition, the Arikara were their allies when these two tribes and several others were east of the Mississippi River. [
Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891 John Wesley Powell 1868
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Having previously been transfixed by the Nelson-Atkins Museum's celebrated Arikara shield on buffalo rawhide of a buffalo bull...
Lee Rosenbaum: Native Americans, Brooklyn-Style: Family-Friendly, Deeply Informative "Tipi" Show Lee Rosenbaum 2011
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Below, composed of bones, wood and feathers, is an Arikara ice glider set, ca. 1920, from the National Museum of the American Indian:
Lee Rosenbaum: Native Americans, Brooklyn-Style: Family-Friendly, Deeply Informative "Tipi" Show Lee Rosenbaum 2011
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Below, composed of bones, wood and feathers, is an Arikara ice glider set, ca. 1920, from the National Museum of the American Indian:
Lee Rosenbaum: Native Americans, Brooklyn-Style: Family-Friendly, Deeply Informative "Tipi" Show Lee Rosenbaum 2011
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Having previously been transfixed by the Nelson-Atkins Museum's celebrated Arikara shield on buffalo rawhide of a buffalo bull...
Lee Rosenbaum: Native Americans, Brooklyn-Style: Family-Friendly, Deeply Informative "Tipi" Show Lee Rosenbaum 2011
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Below, composed of bones, wood and feathers, is an Arikara ice glider set, ca. 1920, from the National Museum of the American Indian:
Lee Rosenbaum: Native Americans, Brooklyn-Style: Family-Friendly, Deeply Informative "Tipi" Show Lee Rosenbaum 2011
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October 8, 1804 – The expedition discovers three Arikara villages.
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Having previously been transfixed by the Nelson-Atkins Museum's celebrated Arikara shield on buffalo rawhide of a buffalo bull...
Lee Rosenbaum: Native Americans, Brooklyn-Style: Family-Friendly, Deeply Informative "Tipi" Show Lee Rosenbaum 2011
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Glass was killed near the Yellowstone River by Arikara Indians in 1833.
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Below, composed of bones, wood and feathers, is an Arikara ice glider set, ca. 1920, from the National Museum of the American Indian:
Lee Rosenbaum: Native Americans, Brooklyn-Style: Family-Friendly, Deeply Informative "Tipi" Show Lee Rosenbaum 2011
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