Grosventres

Grosventres (" Paunch"),the Franco-Canadian name of the Hidatsa branch of the Minnetaree Indians, and applied generally to all the Minnetarees. These are the Fall Indians of English writers, who formerly ranged from the Upper Missouri to the South Saskatchewan river. They appear to be most nearly related to the Upsarokas (Crows) of the Yellowstone basin, who are a branch of the Dakota family; but by some ethnologists they are classed with the Arapahoes, who are an outlying branch of the Algonquin stock. They are now either extinct or grouped in reservations with other broken tribes; but the name survives in the Grosventres river, southernmost of the three head streams of the South Saskatchewan.