Hunkpapaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

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

名詞

Hunkpapa (plural Hunkpapas or Hunkpapa)

1. A member of a Native American group, one of the seven council fires of the Lakota tribe.
   • 1950, Dorothy M. Johnson, War Shirt; in Indian Country, London: Corgi, 1961, page 110:

     If I'd kept a woman, he realized, instead of sending 'em back to their fathers' lodges - the Shoshone girl, them two Hunkpapas, the Crow I called Sally, even that Ree that come near talking me to death - if I'd kept one of 'em for more than just a winter, I'd have boys of my own by now to bring in meat.