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  The Arikara Tribe - Indians With Horns
When the Arikara left the body of their kindred in the southwest they were associated with the Skidi, one of the tribes of the Pawnee confederacy.
The Arikara bartered corn with the Cheyenne and other tribes for buffalo robes, skins, and meat, and exchanged these with the traders for cloth, cooking utensils, guns, etc. Early dealings with the traders were carried on by the women.
The Arikara were equally tenacious of their language, even though they were next-door neighbors to the Sioux tribes for more than a century, living on terms of intimacy and intermarrying to a great extent.
www.legendsofamerica.com /NA-Arikara.html   (1915 words)

  
 Arikara
The Arikara inhabited villages in the Missouri River valley.
Arikara (AT-98) was laid down on 10 January 1943 at Charleston, S.C., by the Charleston Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co.; launched on 22 June 1943; sponsored by Mrs.
Arikara reached the Canal Zone on 3 January 1945, transited the canal, and delivered her tow at Cristobal on the 5th.
www.history.navy.mil /danfs/a11/arikara.htm   (2268 words)

  
 White Dove's Native American Indian Site Arikara (Sahnish)
No synopsis of Arikara cultural history would be complete without emphasizing the devastating effects of the construction of the 1951 Garrison Dam, built in a post-World War II development effort to harness hydroelectric power on the Missouri River.
Arikara political and social life mirrors the cosmological ordering of the Arikara world, which in pre-reservation times was tightly structured and hierarchical.
Despite Arikara population losses resulting from smallpox epidemics, Euro-American conquest, and the dispossession of native lands, ritual life continues to be practiced with modified regularity among contemporary Arikaras, most of whom identify with the Awahu band and trace their ancestry to the Arikara chief, Sitting Bear.
users.multipro.com /whitedove/encyclopedia/arikara-sahnish.html   (1000 words)

  
 The Arikara War - The First Plains Indian War
The Arikara, also known as the Arikaree or Ree Indians, were a semi-nomadic group who lived in tipis on the plains of South Dakota for several hundred years.
Though the Arikaras were never noted for their friendliness to white settlers, all hell would break loose when a chief’s son was killed by a trading company employee.
In the 1830's, the Arikara were almost destroyed by small pox and in the end, were forced from their lands by the Sioux in the 1870's.
www.legendsofamerica.com /NA-ArikaraWar.html   (618 words)

  
 Arikara Indian Tribe History
When the Arikara left the body of their kindred in the S. they were associated with the Skidi, one of the tribes the Pawnee confederacy.
The Ari­kara were equally tenacious of their lan­guage, although next-door neighbors of Siouan tribes for more than a century, living on terms of intimacy and inter­marrying to a great extent.
Until recently the Arikara adhered to their ancient force of dwellings, erecting, at the cost of great labor, earth lodges that were generally grouped about an open space in the center of the village, often quite close together, and usually occupied by 2 or 3 families.
www.accessgenealogy.com /native/tribes/nations/arikara.htm   (1863 words)

  
 Chapter 9 - Activating Women in Arikara Ceramic Production
In this analysis he proposes that, as a result of changing environmental and social conditions, Arikara society evolved from a lineage based descent system with matrilocality to a generationally segmented society with patrilocality; this change, in turn, was responsible for and reflected in a greater stylistic variation in their ceramics.
Concurrently, the size of the Arikara dwellings decreased from a pre-historic range of thirty-six to fifty feet in diameter to one of twenty five to almost forty feet during the proto-historic period.
While the Arikara certainly experienced a truly disruptive series of influences on their total cultural pattern during the course of the warfare, epidemics and mobility which mark their existence during the eighteenth century, these pressures cannot be cited as the primary causal factor in effecting the change in ceramic patterning (Deetz 1965: 90).
www.acs.appstate.edu /dept/anthro/ebooks/gender/ch09.html   (3391 words)

  
 Arikara
Seeing that the Arikara lived in earth lodge villages, Lewis and Clark jumped to the conclusion that they were offshoots of the same people from whom the Mandans and Hidatsas sprang.
The Arikaras have a custom similar to the Sioux in many instances, they think they cannot show a sufficient acknowledgement without giving to their guest handsome squaws and think they are despised if they are not received.
I also told the Arikaras that I was very sorry to hear that they were not on friendly terms with their neighbors the Mandans and Hidatsas and had not listened to what we had said to them but had suffered their young men to join the Sioux who had killed 8 Mandans andc.
www.nps.gov /jeff/LewisClark2/TheJourney/NativeAmericans/Arikara.htm   (8766 words)

  
 Arikara Indian History
In accordance with the act of Feb. 8, 1887, the Arikara received allotments of land in severalty, and, on approval of the allotments by the Secretary of the Interior, Jul-10, 1900, they became citizens of the united States and subject to the laws of North Dakota.
Until recently the Arikara adhered to their ancient form of dwellings, erecting, at the cost of great labor, earth lodges that were generally grouped about an open space in the center of the village, often quite close together, and usually occupied by 2 or 3 families.
The Arikara were a loosely organized confederacy of subtribes, each of which had its separate village and distinctive name.
www.accessgenealogy.com /native/tribes/caddo/arikarahist.htm   (1817 words)

  
 Lewis and Clark . Native Americans . Arikara Indians | PBS
The round, covered lodges were the first of this type that the expedition had encountered, and aroused the interest of the Corps’ Patrick Gass – a former carpenter – enough for him to note their design in his journal.
Arikara men wore buffalo robes, leggings and mocassins, and many warriors wielded guns that they had acquired in trade.
The Arikaras had never seen a fl man. York played with the children, and told them he was a wild creature who had been captured and tamed by Captain Clark.
www.pbs.org /lewisandclark/native/ari.html   (514 words)

  
 Arikara History Brief
The name of the Arikara means or signifys "horns," or "elk," and having reference to their ancient manner of wearing the hair with two pieces of bone standing up, one on each side of the crest; -ra is the plural suffix.
The Arikara are sometimes spoken of as a confederacy of smaller tribes each occupying its own village, and one account mentions 10 of these, while Gilmore (1927) furnishes the names of 12, including 4 of major importance under which the others were grouped.
The Arikara are noted merely as the most northerly of the Caddoan tribes and from their probable influence in introducing a knowledge of agriculture to the people of the upper Missouri.
www.manataka.org /page672.html   (596 words)

  
 Arikara-Indian Tribe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
the name Arikara means "Horns" or "Elk", and refers to the ancient manner in which these Indians wore their hair with two pieces of bone standing up, one on each side of the crest.
The Arikara orginally came from the Platte Valley in Nebraska.
In early days they were considered hostile to teh white man. For a long time they were allied with the Mandan and Hidatsa, after smallpox and wars with the Dakota had reduced their number.
members.tripod.com /pambies/arikara.html   (177 words)

  
 USS Arikara   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Built in 1943, The Arikara displaced 1,675 tons at full load, measured 205 ft. LOA (Length Over All), with a beam of 38.5 ft. She was a Diesel electric drive ship with 4 Alco Diesel engines of 900 HP each and a single 3,000 HP motor turning her shaft.
Arikara like the other fleet tugs could tow anything that would float to the hinges of Hell, once she snatched on that 2 inch diameter, plow steel towline.
USS Arikara was home ported at Pearl Harbor, Territory of Hawaii and I boarded her for the first time at Dog Easy Dock 7 1/2, and disappeared into the bilges.
home.bendcable.com /navysnipe/uss.htm   (265 words)

  
 8-Arikara
None occurred, but their discovery of several abandoned old fortified Arikara villages as they continued upriver was a constant reminder of how warfare and smallpox had dramatically reduced Indian populations in the area.
The Arikara (also called Ricara, Stararee, Rickarree or "Rees") had lost perhaps 75 percent of their people in the two decades before the Corps of Discovery arrived and were living in three villages near the mouth of the Grand River in northern South Dakota.
The Arikara chiefs were very polite to Lewis and Clark, but they had little choice but to continue their traditional trade with the Sioux.
www.umsl.edu /~econed/louisiana/Am_Indians/8-Arikara/8-arikara.html   (594 words)

  
 ARIKARA. The Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
In winter they hunted buffalo, returning to their villages for spring planting; the Arikara were influential in bringing agricultural knowledge from the Southwest to the prehistoric peoples of the upper Missouri River.
They were closely associated with the Mandan and the Hidatsa; these three tribes now share the Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota.
There were some 1,600 Arikara in the United States in 1990.
www.bartleby.com /aol/65/ar/Arikara.html   (157 words)

  
 Arikara Nation
The Arikara Indians were an offshoot tribe of the Pawnee tribe that migrated from the South and settled in the Dakotas.
Those still located at Cheyenne were having battles with the Sioux, who were in the process of migrating westward, and in 1797, the Arikaras moved north to join their brothers.
However, there were soon a war with the Mandans, and the whole Arikara tribe moved about 200 miles south to camp near the mouth of the Grand River.
ussarikara.com /arikara_nation.htm   (1494 words)

  
 Arikara War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Arikara (a Native American nation also called Arikaree or Ree) warriors attacked a trapping expedition travelling on the river.
First, it was the first military conflict between the United States and the western Native Americans, setting the tone for future encounters with the Crow and Blackfeet.
The Arikara eventually settled on the Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arikara_War   (173 words)

  
 Documenting and Maintaining Indigenous Languages   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Future teachers will be individuals who learned Arikara as a second language, and, in order to develop their own language skills, they will have to depend on the documentary materials recorded today from the last fluent speakers of the language.
The Arikara Multimedia Language Lessons were created in response to the White Shield School community's desire to have the Arikara language taught in their schools.
The Arikara model is promising: the language has been meticulously documented by a linguist (Parks), and the lesson designs are informed by the literature on second language acquisition and computer-assisted language learning.
jan.ucc.nau.edu /~jar/RIL_6.html   (8925 words)

  
 Arikara | | Dictionary & Translation by Babylon
Arikara (also Arikaree, Ree) refers to a group of Native Americans that spoke a Caddoan language.
Les Arikaras ou, comme ils préfèrent se nommer, les Sahnishs, sont une tribu amérindienne d'agriculteurs vivant dans le Dakota du Nord.
Arikara to English Arikara to French Arikara to Spanish Arikara to German Arikara to Japanese
www.babylon.com /definition/Arikara/All   (318 words)

  
 Home
The USS Arikara (AT 98) was commissioned on 5 January 1944.
The Arikara as well as others of the AT class was re-designated as (ATF 98) on 15 May, 1944.
After 21 years in the Chilean Navy she was decommissioned on 14 August 1992 and subsequently sunk as a target.
ussarikara.com /home.htm   (272 words)

  
 Oregon History ProjectOregon History Project Glossary Arikara Indians
Arikara Indians: Part of the Caddoan linguistic family, the Arikara’s traditional homelands were situated in the modern day Dakotas along the Missouri River.
Primarily a sedentary farming culture that traded with nomadic groups, the Arikara grew crops such as squash, beans, watermelon, and the all-important corn.
Smallpox ravaged the Arikara population after contact with Euro Americans, reducing their population from 2,600 in 1804 to 380 in 1904.
www.ohs.org /education/oregonhistory/OHP-Glossary-Arikara-Indians.cfm   (125 words)

  
 National Geographic: Lewis & Clark—Tribes—Arikara Indians
The Arikara were an agricultural people who lived in earth lodges between the Grand and Cannonball Rivers in what is now northern South Dakota.
Twenty years before the arrival of the Corps of Discovery, the Arikara numbered nearly 30,000 and controlled the land along the Missouri for a hundred miles (160 kilometers).
The Arikara were farmers, raising corn, beans, tobacco, and squash both for food and to trade with other tribes in the area.
www.nationalgeographic.com /lewisandclark/record_tribes_020_5_1.html   (320 words)

  
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The Arikara are thought to have migrated to the Missouri River Basin centuries ago.
The Arikara were never able to create a stable political structure; literally, there were "too many chiefs and not enough Indians." Internal power struggles affected their relations with other tribes and eventually "Whites" who came to the area.
The Arikara did not yet know their chief had died peacefully, and the Americans did not know the Arikara and Mandan were at war that summer.
www.humboldt.edu /~wrd1/legacybe.htm   (2328 words)

  
 Arikara Language
Arikara is a Caddoan language of the Great Plains.
The Arikara language has been in decline and is spoken today by fewer than a hundred elders, but some young people are working to keep their ancestral language alive.
Biographies of nineteen Gros Ventre and Arikara Indian men from the 19th century.
www.native-languages.org /arikara.htm   (171 words)

  
 EARTH LODGE: Hidatsa, Mandan, Arikara traditional large earth-sheltered Plains homes
They were forced to move to the shelterless, windswept, barren prairies, and the arms of the lake now cut off the new communities from each other on the unfriendly expanse of what's left of their destroyed land, where they had lived and farmed from time immemorial.
The Garrison dam that destroyed the Hidatsa, Mandan, and Arikara lands, settlements, bridges, roads, hospitals, and way of life was conceived in 90 days in the 1940's.
It was opposed as a meaningless boondoggle project by some of the water control federal planners, and the BIA testified the site was selected becaue "a large portion of the inundated area would be comprised of Indian lands." The only really habitable land was the river valley.
www.kstrom.net /isk/maps/houses/hidatsa.html   (2436 words)

  
 Arikara - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
ARIKARA [Arikara], Native North Americans whose language belongs to the Caddoan branch of the Hokan-Siouan linguistic stock (see Native American languages).
They were closely associated with the Mandan and the Hidatsa ; these three tribes now share the Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota.
Arikara Hidatsa Cheyenne Chippewa Dakota Lakota Mandan Nakota.(powwow dance of native Americans)
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-arikara.html   (352 words)

  
 Preserving Pawnee and Arikara for posterity
The professor pointed out that originally the Pawnee and Arikara Indians were a single tribe, but time and distance brought so many changes that the languages no longer sound alike.
The Arikara are in west central North Dakota on the Fort Berthold Reservation.
Parks' work is not just a matter of amassing as many Pawnee and Arikara words as possible for a diction-ary and devising a grammar.
www.iuinfo.indiana.edu /homepages/1010/text/preserving.htm   (809 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: The Arikara War: The First Plains Indian War, 1823: Books: William R. Nestor,William R. Nester   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Many of us are all familiar with the Arikara War when there would be armed conflict against elements of Ashley's and Henry's party as they ascended the Missouri River.
The Arikara War would become the harbinger of things to unfold in both commercial and political developments and their impact upon America's Western regions.
This would be a far more important factor in the decline of Arikara influence than the expedition of General Henry Leavenworth and a military detachment and a group of Sioux Indians against the Arikara nation.
www.amazon.ca /Arikara-War-First-Plains-Indian/dp/087842430X   (739 words)

  
 The Arikara Location   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Being part of these much larger tribes was not good for the Arikara because when they left the larger tribes, they left on bad terms.
The women wore a one-piece dress that reached down to their ankles, made of two pieces of deerskin and fringed on the bottom.
The Arikara claim to have an original basket weaving technique as well, but many Caddoan experts say it was a classic Caddoan weave.
www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/cultural/northamerica/arikara.html   (393 words)

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