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Arikara
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A·rik·a·ra  (-rkr-)
n. pl. Arikara or A·rik·a·ras
1.
a. 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.
b. A member of this people.
2. The Caddoan language of the Arikara.
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Noun1.ArikaraArikara - a member of the Caddo people who formerly lived in the Dakotas west of the Missouri river
Aricara
Caddo - 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 Arikara
Aricara
Caddoan, Caddoan language, Caddo - a family of North American Indian languages spoken widely in the Midwest by the Caddo


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These were Mandans, Hidatsas and Arikaras (Sahnish), known collectively today as the Three Affiliated Tribes.
Fred Olsen--pioneer North Dakota photographer: Part one by Green, Richard / Whispering Wind
By the fall of 1823, the hostile Arikaras had been driven from their villages on the Missouri, making passage north possible again.
Godly mountain man: like all fur trappers of the early 1800s, ... by Gilmore, Jodie / The New American
It rewrote the balance of power for the Plains Indians, decimating the village-dwelling Arikaras and Mandans and allowing the nomadic Sioux to seize control of the prairie.
Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82. (George ... by Franke-Ruta, Garance / Washington Monthly
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