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Hunk⋅pa⋅pa

  [huhngk-pah-puh]
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–noun, plural -pas, (especially collectively) -pa.
a member of a North American Indian people belonging to the Teton branch of the Dakota.
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Hunk·pa·pa   (hŭngk'pä'pä)   
n.   pl. Hunkpapa or Hunk·pa·pas

  1. A Native American people constituting a subdivision of the Teton Sioux, formerly inhabiting an area from the western Dakotas to southeast Montana, with a present-day population along the border between North and South Dakota. The Hunkpapa figured prominently in the resistance to white encroachment on the northern Great Plains.

  2. A member of this people.

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