What does "hunkpapa" mean?

A member of a Native American group, one of the seven council fires of the Lakota tribe.

Hunkpapa

Common synonyms include: ethnic, hunkpapa language, indigenous, lakota, lakota band, lakota dialect.

noun

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Noun

1
A member of a Native American group, one of the seven council fires of the Lakota tribe.
2
a Siouan language spoken by the Hunkpapa wordnet
3
a member of the Siouan people who constituted a division of the Teton Sioux and who formerly lived in the western Dakotas; they were prominent in resisting the white encroachment into the northern Great Plains wordnet

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