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Hunkpapas

Hunkpapas is the plural of Hunkpapa.

Meaning of Hunkpapa

Noun

Hunkpapa (plural Hunkpapas or Hunkpapa)

  1. A member of a Native American group, one of the seven council fires of the Lakota tribe.
    • If I'd kept a woman, he realized, instead of sending 'em back to their fathers' lodges - the Shoshone girl, them two Hunkpapas, the Crow I called Sally, even that Ree that come near talking me to death - if I'd kept one of 'em for more than just a winter, I'd have boys of my own by now to bring in...1950, Dorothy M. Johnson, War Shirt; in Indian Country, London: Corgi, 1961, page 110

Questions about Hunkpapas

What is Hunkpapas the plural of?
Hunkpapas is the plural of Hunkpapa.

Words near Hunkpapas in the dictionary

  1. hunkiness
  2. Hunkins
  3. Hunkinses
  4. hunkish
  5. Hunkpapa
  6. Hunkpapas
  7. hunks
  8. hunks of junk
  9. hunkses
  10. hunksome
  11. hunkvertising

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