nothing but war, robbery, murder, and man-hunting." _The Standard Natural History (J. S. Kingsley, ed.), volume 6, pages 245-248._ ALSO IN _F. Keller, The Amazon and Madeira Rivers, chapter 2 and 6._ _H. W. Bates, A Naturalist on the River Amazons, chapter 7-13._ AMERICAN ABORIGINES: Guuchies. See below: PAMPAS TRIBES. AMERICAN ABORIGINES: Hackinsacks. See above: ALGONQUIAN FAMILY. AMERICAN ABORIGINES: Haidas. See below: SKITTAGETAN FAMILY. AMERICAN ABORIGINES: Hidatsa, or Minnetaree, or Grosventres See Note, Appendix E. "The Hidatsa, Minnetaree, or Grosventre Indians, are one of the three tribes which at present inhabit the permanent village at Fort Berthold, Dakota Territory, and hunt on the waters of the Upper Missouri and Yellowstone Rivers, in Northwestern Dakota and Eastern Montana. The history of this tribe is ... intimately connected with that of the politically allied tribes of the Aricarees and Mandans." The name, Grosventres, was given to the people of this tribe "by the early French and Canadian adventurers. The same name was applied also to a tribe, totally distinct from these in language and origin, which lives some hundreds of miles west of Fort Berthold; and the two nations are now distinguished from one another as Grosventres of the Missouri and Grosventres of the Prairie. ... Edward Umfreville, who traded on the Saskatchewan River from 1784 to 1787, ... remarks: ... 'They [the Canadian French] call them Grosventres, or Big-Bellies; and without any reason, as they are as comely and as well made as any tribe whatever.' ... In the works of many travellers they are called Minnetarees, a name which is spelled in various ways. ... This, although a Hidatsa word, is the name applied to them, not by themselves, but by the Mandans; it signifies 'to cross the water,' or 'they crossed the water.' ... Hidatsa was the name of the village on Knife River farthest from the Missouri, the village of those whom Lewis and Clarke considered the Minnetarees proper." It is the name "now generally used by this people to designate themselves." _W. Matthews, Ethnography and Philology of the Hidatsa Indians, parts 1-2 (United States Geological and Geographical Survey. F. V. Hayden, Mis. Pub., No. 7)_. See also, below: SIOUAN FAMILY. {88} AMERICAN ABORIGINES: Hitchitis. See below: MUSKHOGEAN FAMILY. AMERICAN ABORIGINES: Horikans.