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Hidatsa · hidatsa · minitaree · belantse-etoa · Hiráaca · Gros Ventres · Awatixa · Awaxawi · HiraacaHidatsa
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In the record
The United States made 2 treaties and agreements that name Hidatsa as a party, from Belantse-Etoa or Minitaree at Lower Mandan Village (1825) to Treaty of Fort Laramie (Horse Creek), 1851.
The atlas records 2 broken treaty promises involving Hidatsa: Fort Laramie 1851: Pike's Peak gold rush invades treaty territory and Garrison Dam (1946-1956): the Fort Berthold Reservation and the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara. One court case turned on its rights: Strate v. A-1 Contractors.
Today, Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, North Dakota carries this history, as their own pages or research records say.
Written from the records linked here; open any of them for its sources. This is what the United States’ treaty record says, not the nation’s own account.
The record over time
Circles are land the United States recorded as ceded, sized by acres and colored by how it was taken. Bars are treaties, broken promises, court cases and land returns.
Names
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Self-names
- HiráacaHidatsa (Latin)
Names in treaties and records
- Gros VentresFrench
Who is doing the work
This history belongs to living nations. Start with them:
Native legal and land defense, nationally
- Native American Rights Fund (NARF) Native-led Litigation and legal advocacy for tribal sovereignty, treaty rights, land and resources Give on their site Website
- NDN Collective (LANDBACK Campaign) Native-led LANDBACK campaign (launched 2020; Mount Rushmore closure and return of Black Hills public lands), Indigenous… Give on their site Website
- Indian Land Tenure Foundation (ILTF) Native-led Land recovery and control by tribes and individual Indian landowners Website
- Decolonizing Wealth Project (Indigenous Earth Fund; California Tribal Land Return) Native-led Reparative philanthropy Give on their site Website
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Connections
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Named in 3
Party to 2
Present-day governments that carry this history 1
Sources
- plainshumanities.unl.edu/encyclopedia/doc/egp.na.035.htmlreference work
three closely related bands–the Hidatsa-proper, Awatixa, and Awaxawi–each spoke a distinct dialect
- mhanation.com/language/unclassified
The Mandan (Nuu’etaa), Hidatsa (Hiráaca), and Arikara (Sahnish) languages are the heart of our culture and identity.
- plainshumanities.unl.edu/encyclopedia/doc/egp.na.031.htmlreference work
To distinguish them from the Hidatsas, also known as the Gros Ventres
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