Q:Information: - The Hunkpapa ( Lakota : Hukpapa ) are a Native American group , one of the seven council fires of the Lakota tribe . The name Hukpapa is a Lakota word meaning '' Head of the Circle '' . ( At one time , the tribe 's name was represented in European - American records as Honkpapa . ) By tradition , the Hukpapa set up their lodges at the entryway to the circle of the Great Council when the Sioux met in convocation . They speak Lakota , one of the three dialects of the Sioux language . They may have formed as a tribe within the Lakota relatively recently , as the first mention of the Hunkpapa in European - American historical records was from a treaty of 1825 . The United States Army General Warren estimated their population at about 2920 in 1855 . He described their territory as ranging '' from the Big Cheyenne up to the Yellowstone , and west to the Black Hills . He states that they formerly intermarried extensively with the Cheyenne . '' He noted that they raided settlers along the Platte River . In addition to warfare , they suffered considerable losses due to contact with Europeans and contracting of Eurasian infectious diseases to which they had no immunity . During the 1870s , when the Native Americans of the Great Plains were fighting the United States , the Hunkpapa were led by Sitting Bull in the fighting , together with the Oglala Lakota . They were among the last of the tribes to go to the reservations . By 1891 , the majority of Hunkpapa Lakota , about 571 people , resided in the Standing Rock Indian Reservation of North and South Dakota . Since then they have not been counted separately from the Lakota . - Sioux is a Siouan language spoken by over 30,000 Sioux in the United States and Canada, making it the fifth most spoken indigenous language in the United States or Canada, behind Navajo, Cree, Inuit and Ojibwe. - The Sioux are groups of Native American tribes and First Nations peoples in North America. The term can refer to any ethnic group within the Great Sioux Nation or to any of the nation's many language dialects. The Sioux comprise three major divisions based on language divisions: the Dakota, Lakota, and Nakota. After reading the paragraphs above, we are interested in knowing the entity with which 'hunkpapa' exhibits the relationship of 'instance of'. Find the answer from the choices below. Choices: - ethnic group - first nations - group - language - nation - term - three
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ethnic group