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Gros Ventre of the Missouri

Variant of Gros Ventre

Gros Ventre definition

Gros· Ventre (grō′ vänt′)

  1. a member of a western group of the Arapaho, now living in Montana
    also called Gros Ventre of the Prairie
  2. Hidatsa
    also called Gros Ventre of the Missouri

Etymology: Fr, lit., big belly

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