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Definition of Aricara
1. Noun. A member of the Caddo people who formerly lived in the Dakotas west of the Missouri river.
2. Noun. The Caddoan language spoken by the Arikara.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aricara
Literary usage of Aricara
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Astoria; or, Enterprise beyond the Rocky mountains by Washington Irving (1836)
"... AN Aricara CHIEF ENCAMPMENT OF THE TRADING PARTIES. THE rival parties now
coasted along the opposite sides of the river, within sight of each other; ..."
2. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1904)
"[345] Potentilla Arguta, bluffs above the Aricara village. Ranunculus Multifidus,
in stagnant pools near the Sepulchre bluffs. ..."
3. The American Fur Trade of the Far West: A History of the Pioneer Trading by Hiram Martin Chittenden (1902)
"In the operations before the Aricara villages the whites lost none in killed and
... Colonel Leavenworth thought that the Aricara loss amounted to fifty, ..."
4. History of Early Steamboat Navigation on the Missouri River: Life and by Hiram Martin Chittenden (1903)
"The Aricara chief, White Shield, came on board and said to La Barge, ... *The
Aricara language is related to that of the Pawnees. which La Barge, ..."
5. Economic Beginnings of the Far West: How We Won the Land Beyond the Mississippi by Katharine Coman (1912)
"The Aricara campaign was a military fiasco, which could have no other effect on
the Indians than to render them even more contemptuous of the authority of ..."
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