Etymology

Hunkpapa

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Today it means: A member of a Native American group, one of the seven council fires of the Lakota tribe. Full definition →

Lakota Húŋkpapȟa
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The story

  1. Lakota · borrowed fromHúŋkpapȟa“head of the circle”
  2. English todayHunkpapa

From Lakota Húŋkpapȟa (“head of the circle”).

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