Hidatsa

The following account is from information given by several persons of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara tribes.

Their language differs only slightly from that of the Hidatsa.

The same is true of the Hidatsa pitika, which signifies a smoothing out, or straightening.

(Mandan and Hidatsa I.) "To kill with a blow; to deal the death blow."

American instructed deaf-mutes use substantially the sign described by (Mandan and Hidatsa I).