In winter, the bands usually camped separately but came together in the spring and fall for large buffalo hunts and various ceremonies. Chiefs were awarded their status because of their prowess in war. The tribe acquired horses in the mid-18th century and then began to migrate farther south to the Great Plains of Wyoming and Colorado to hunt buffalo.Īboriginally, the Gros Ventre were divided into 12 bands, each of which was led by a chief who usually made decisions in consultation with other male members of the band. They spoke the now nearly extinct Gros Ventre language (Atsina). After they migrated, the Arapaho moved southwards to the Wyoming and Colorado area, while the Cheyenne migrated south into South Dakota and Colorado. These, with the Cheyenne, migrated into Montana under pressure from the Ojibwe. In the early 18th century, the large tribe split, forming the Gros Ventre and the Arapaho. They called themselves A’aninin, the White Clay People, and were closely associated with the ancestors of the Cheyenne. They were an Algonquian-speaking people who lived along the Red River valley in northern present-day Minnesota and Manitoba, Canada. The Gros Ventre and the Arapaho were once part of the same large tribe who lived in the western Great Lakes region 3000 years ago, where they lived an agricultural lifestyle, cultivating maize. ![]() Pronounced “Grow Vaunt,” the word means “big belly” in French. No one knows exactly why the French called them this. They were also known as the Ahe, A’aninin, Ahahnelin, A’ane, Haaninin, and Atsina. ![]() ![]() Gros Ventre (Atsina) demonstrating Moving Camp, by Edward S.
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