Associations to the word «Hunkpapa»

Dictionary definition

HUNKPAPA, noun. A member of the Siouan people who constituted a division of the Teton Sioux and who formerly lived in the western Dakotas; they were prominent in resisting the white encroachment into the northern Great Plains.
HUNKPAPA, noun. A Siouan language spoken by the Hunkpapa.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne