GROS VENTRE

grō văNˈtrə [Fr.,=big belly], name used by the French for two quite distinct Native North American groups. One was the Atsina, a detached band of the Arapaho, whose language belongs to the Algonquian branch of the Algonquian-Wakashan linguistic stock (see Native American languages); the other was the Hidatsa, whose language belongs to the Siouan branch of the Hokan-Siouan linguistic stock. The Native American sign language designated the two groups by somewhat similar gestures on the torso, one referring to the Hidatsa chest tattoos and the other, designating the Atsina, conveying the meaning of hunger. In the 18th cent. the Atsina roamed the plains between the Missouri and the Saskatchewan rivers under the protection of the powerful Blackfoot to the west. Today the Atsina live with the Assiniboin on the Fort Belknap Reservation in Montana, established in 1888. There were some 2,800 Atsina in the United States in 1990.

See R. Flannery, The Gros Ventres of Montana (2 vol., 1953–57).

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Wyoming, a Guide to Its History, Highways, and People
Book; University of Nebraska Press, 1981
Subjects: Wyoming, Wyoming--Guidebooks
...GROVONT--phonetic rendering of Gros Ventre Fr., great belly , the name of an...m. The road goes southeast toward GROS VENTRE RIVER, which it parallels...patch the dark-green slopes. The Gros Ventre Mountains are the home of most...
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Primitive Society
Book by Robert H. Lowie; Boni and Liveright, 1920
Subjects: Primitive Societies
Gros Ventre have been most closely affiliated with the...their culture. As already explained, the Gros Ventre sibs, except for their firmer integration...connection between the Blackfoot band and the Gros Ventre sib. Now the Gros Ventre had no sibs...
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Powwow
Book by Clyde Ellis, Luke Eric Lassiter, Gary H. Dunham; University of Nebraska Press, 2005
Subjects: Indian Dance--North America, Indians Of North America--Rites And Ceremonies, Powwows--North America
...reservation settlement. Some Gros Ventre individuals, particularly...Fort Belknap in 1877. The Gros Ventres took no part in the battle. Gros Ventre youths also emphasized that this new powwow was evidence of Gros Ventre primacy and prominence...
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John Colter, His Years in the Rockies
Book by Burton Harris, David Lavender; University of Nebraska Press, 1993
...scene of the battle and pursue the Gros Ventre. The expedition buried Cheek and Ayers, and then discovered the body of a Gros Ventre "carefully concealed under...convinced the pursuers that another Gros Ventre had been seriously wounded...
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When Languages Die: The Extinction of the World's Languages and the Erosion of Human Knowledge
Book by K. David Harrison; Oxford University Press, 2007
Subjects: Language Obsolescence
...1942: 24. See also Dobrin 2001: 35. 42. Gros Ventre: Driver 1961: 353-54. 43. Gros Ventre words: Spellings adapted here for the general reader. Flannery (1946) spells Gros Ventre bread phonetically as djatsa and kyatsa...
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The Pegogamaw Crees and Their Ancestors: History and Archaeology in the Saskatchewan Forks Region
Journal article by David Meyer, Dale Russell; Plains Anthropologist, Vol. 51, 2006
Subjects: Canadian culture, Environmental conditions, Fur trade, Minority & ethnic groups, Native North Americans, Problems, Social interaction
...Plains bison hunters such as the Gros Ventre and Blackfoot. The Pegogamaw appear...similar statement regarding early Gros Ventre territory and movements appears...of central Saskatchewan, while Gros Ventre occupied the aspen parklands and...
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Buried in Fine White Ash: Violence and the Reimagination of Ceremonial Bodies in Winter in the Blood and Bearheart
Journal article by Meg Armstrong; American Indian Quarterly, Vol. 21, 1998
Subjects: Indians Of Central America--Periodicals
...buried references to Gros Ventre ritual and myth in Winter...narrators alienation from Gros Ventre or Blackfeet culture...Arapaho culture ("Gros Ventre culture is much more...religious life of the Gros Ventres is pervaded by a mysticism...
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Aboriginal Seasonal Subsistence and Land Use on the Northeastern Plains: Insight from Ethnohistoric Sources
Journal article by Scott Hamilton, B. A. Nicholson; Plains Anthropologist, Vol. 51, 2006
Subjects: Buffalo, Field study, Fur trade, Grasslands, Land use, Minority & ethnic groups, Seasons, Technological change
...Kelseys report of the Gros Ventre (also referred to as...Archithinue (probably Gros Ventre). He notes that the...679) also describe the Gros Ventre seasonal round after their...across the grassland, the Gros Ventre bands broke up...
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"So Fine and Pleasant, beyond Description": the Lands and Lives of the Pegogamaw Crees
Journal article by David Meyer, Dale Russell; Plains Anthropologist, Vol. 49, 2004
Subjects: Ethnology, Geography, Minority & ethnic groups
...the plains people. For instance, Cocking described a Gros Ventre tobacco garden in the Bear Hills area.5 However, the...Cocking noted that pottery continued to be produced by the Gros Ventre.6 As well, in their home territory the Pegogamaw acted...
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Redefining Race: Can Genetic Testing Provide Biological Proof of Indian Ethnicity?
Journal article by Eric Beckenhauer; Stanford Law Review, Vol. 56, 2003
Subjects: Genetic screening, Human population genetics, Native Americans, Race
...tribe where her grandfather was once Chief. (1) The Gros Ventre Indians call Robert Upham a mixed blood. Part Assiniboine...Indian, he was raised on the Montana reservation of the Gros Ventre Indians, where four generations of his mothers family...
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Tall in the Tetons
Magazine article by Jeff Phillips; Sunset, Vol. 204, May 2000
Subjects: Grand Teton National Park, National parks, Tourism, Travel
...safari. North of Jackson, look for bison along the Gros Ventre Road east of U.S. 191. Try to spot moose along the...reducing tax rolls in Teton County". Hansen points out the Gros Ventre Buttes that flank his bottomland: The west butte is...
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Rebirth on the Great Plains
Magazine article by Douglas Chadwick; National Wildlife, Vol. 36, April 1998
Subjects: Bison--Protection, Native Americans--Culture
...the Fort Belknap Reservation of the Assiniboine and Gros Ventre tribes in northcentral Montana. Frontiersmen once described...community college. From time to time, the Assinibone and Gros Ventre conduct buffalo tours for the public. Hopes to expand...
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Among the Natives
Magazine article by Kenneth J. Cooper; Diverse Issues in Higher Education, Vol. 27, November 25, 2010
Subjects: African Americans, Colleges & universities, Native North Americans, Plantations, Underground Railroad
...or identity," she says. There is one certain family tie: Her husband, Dr. Joseph Gone, is Native American. A Gros Ventre from Montana, he is a professor of psychology and Native American studies at the University of Michigan. Miles and...
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Open Trips
Magazine article; Sierra, Vol. 88, May-June 2003
...Desert: Trail Work in the Chiricahua Wildemess, Arizona. June 6-14. Leader: Michel Tharp. Price: $445. 03305A Gros Ventre Wilderness Trail Service, Wyoming. July 24-August 2. Leader: Howard Kellogg. Price: $425. 03321A
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Service
Magazine article; Sierra, Vol. 85, January 2000
Subjects: Vacations--Planning, Wilderness areas--Travel
...hikes, relaxing, and stargazing. Leader: Lee Bowen. Price: $440; Dep: $50. 00320A 25 Womens Service in the Gros Ventre Wilderness, Wyoming. July 29-August 5. Backpack into seclusion in rugged important wildlife habitat in the Greater...
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University to Host Languages in Peril Seminar
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), August 3, 2010
Subjects: Seminars--Conferences, meetings and seminars, Universities and colleges--Conferences, meetings and seminars
...quarter of the 192 languages at one time spoken in the USA have disappeared and another 70 are under threat. One is Gros Ventre, spoken by fewer than 10 people in northern Montana. All are elderly, and none is fully fluent. The last fully fluent...
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Tackling the Black at Wyoming's Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, Diamonds Can Become a Girl's Best Friend
Newspaper article by Dan Leeth; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), February 11, 2007
Subjects: Ski resorts
...gov/nationalelkrefuge), home to a herd of 7,500 wild elk that winter in the meadowlands along Flat Creek and the Gros Ventre River. Horse-drawn sleigh rides, which leave from the Jackson Hole and Greater Yellowstone Visitor Center, allow...


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encyclopedia articles on: Gros Ventre  - 5 results

 
 
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Gros Ventre
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
GROS VENTRE gro vaN tr Fr.,=big belly, name used by the French for two quite...2,800 Atsina in the United States in 1990. See R. Flannery, The Gros Ventres of Montana (2 vol., 1953 57...
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Atsina
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ATSINA see Gros Ventre . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Hidatsa
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
HIDATSA hedat sa, Native North Americans, also known as the Minitari and the Gros Ventre. Their language belongs to the Siouan branch of the Hokan-Siouan linguistic stock (see Native American languages ). After...
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Wyoming , State, United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...is the Wind River Range, reaching the highest elevation in the state at Gannett Peak. Still farther north rise the Gros Ventre and Absaroka ranges, and to the west, near the Idaho line, the glorious Tetons loom above a lake and valley country...
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Arapaho
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...tribal event, and later the Arapaho adopted the Ghost Dance religion. There are three major divisions the Atsina or Gros Ventre , who were allied with the Blackfoot and now live with the Assiniboin on the Fort Belknap Reservation in Montana; the...


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