Arikara

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A0422100 (ə-rĭk′ər-ə)n. pl. Arikara or A·rik·a·ras 1. 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.2. The Caddoan language of the Arikara.

A•rik•a•ra

(əˈrɪk ər ə)

n., pl. -ras, (esp. collectively) -ra. 1. a member of an American Indian people of North Dakota. 2. the Caddoan language of the Arikara, closely related to Pawnee.

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Noun	1.	Arikara - a member of the Caddo people who formerly lived in the Dakotas west of the Missouri riverAricaraCaddo - a group of Plains Indians formerly living in what is now North and South Dakota and Nebraska and Kansas and Arkansas and Louisiana and Oklahoma and Texas
	2.	Arikara - the Caddoan language spoken by the ArikaraAricaraCaddoan, Caddoan language, Caddo - a family of North American Indian languages spoken widely in the Midwest by the Caddo

Arikara

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Arikara

(ərĭk`ərə), Native North Americans whose language belongs to the Caddoan branch of the Hokan-Siouan linguistic stock (see Native American languagesNative American languages,
languages of the native peoples of the Western Hemisphere and their descendants. A number of the Native American languages that were spoken at the time of the European arrival in the New World in the late 15th cent.
..... Click the link for more information. ). Archaeological evidence shows that they occupied the banks of the upper Missouri River since at least the 14th cent. A semisedentary group, they lived in earth-covered lodges. In winter they hunted buffalo, returning to their villages for spring planting; the Arikara were influential in bringing agricultural knowledge from the Southwest to the prehistoric peoples of the upper Missouri River. They traded corn with hunting tribes in return for buffalo hides and meat, and they were active in bartering with early white traders, who frequently called them the Rees. They were closely associated with the MandanMandan
, indigenous people of North America whose language belongs to the Siouan branch of the Hokan-Siouan linguistic stock (see Native American languages). The Mandan were a sedentary tribe of the Plains area and were culturally connected with their neighbors on the Missouri
..... Click the link for more information. and the HidatsaHidatsa
, Native North Americans, also known as the Minitari and the Gros Ventre. Their language belongs to the Siouan branch of the Hokan-Siouan linguistic stock (see Native American languages).
..... Click the link for more information. ; these three tribes now share the Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota. There were some 1,600 Arikara in the United States in 1990.

Bibliography

See D. J. Lehmer, Arikara Archaeology (1968); E. T. Denig, Five Indian Tribes of the Upper Missouri (1975).

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noun a member of the Caddo people who formerly lived in the Dakotas west of the Missouri river

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noun the Caddoan language spoken by the Arikara

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