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The Gros Ventre (US: / ˈ ɡ r oʊ v ɒ n t / GROH-vont, French: [ɡʁo vɑ̃tʁ]; meaning "big belly"), also known as the A'aninin, Atsina, [5] or White Clay, [6] are a historically Algonquian-speaking Native American tribe located in northcentral Montana.
The Gros Ventre Range (/ ˌ ɡ r oʊ ˈ v ɑː n t / groh-VAHNT) is part of the Central Rocky Mountains and is located west of the Continental Divide in U.S. state of Wyoming. The name "Gros Ventre" is French for "big belly." The highest summit in the range is Doubletop Peak at 11,720 feet (3,570 m). [1]
The sign for waterfall was the passing of the hands over the stomach. The French traders interpreted this as meaning "big belly" and called the Aaniiih the Gros Ventre, meaning "big belly" in the French language. The Nakoda (meaning the Generous Ones) split with the Yanktonai Sioux in the 17th century.
Gros Ventre is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger Atsina , or Gros Ventre (also known as Aaniiih, Ananin, Ahahnelin, Ahe, A’ani, and ʔɔʔɔɔɔniiih ), [ 3 ] is the ancestral language of the Gros Ventre people of what is today Montana , United States of America .
Latest Cretaceous time saw the formation of a low broad northwest-trending arch along the approximate area of the present Teton Range and Gros Ventre Mountains. Part of the evidence for the first Laramide mountain building west of the Teton region is the several hundred cubic miles of quartzite boulders derived from the Targhee uplift , which ...
The Big Snowy Mountains (Gros Ventre: níichʔibííkʔa, lit. 'it is never summer' [ 1 ] ) are a small mountain range south of Lewistown in Fergus County, Montana . Considerably east of and isolated from the main crest of the Northern Rockies , they are one of the few points of significant elevation in the immediate area and are considered one ...
The name Gros Ventre, meaning "Big Bellies" in French, was a misinterpretation of sign language between an Indian guide and French explorers. The Gros Ventre spoke an Algonquian language similar to Arapaho after the division; they identified as A'aninin, meaning ″White Clay people″.
The nomadic Gros Ventre were called Minnetarees of Fort de Prairie, Minnetarees of the Prairie, Minnetarees of the Plains or Gros Ventres of the Prairie while the semisedentary Hidatsa were known as Minnetarees of the Missouri or Gros Ventres of the Missouri. [citation needed]