Editing Hidatsa (section)

== Name ==
The Hidatsa's [[endonym|autonym]] is '''Hiraacá'''. The word itself is a corruption of the term {{lang|hid|midah-hutsee-ahti}} meaning 'house or lodge made with willows'.<ref name=nddpi>{{cite report |author=<!-- not stated --> |date=2002 |title=The History and Culture of the Mandan, Hidatsa, [and] Sahnish (Arikara) |url=https://www.indianaffairs.nd.gov/sites/www/files/documents/pdfs/History_and_Culture_Mandan_Hidatsa_and_Arikara.pdf |location=[[Bismarck, North Dakota]] |publisher=North Dakota Department of Public Instruction |access-date=18 May 2025}}</ref> The present name ''Hidatsa'' was formerly borne by one of the three tribal villages. When the villages consolidated, the name was adopted for the tribe as a whole.{{Citation needed|date=April 2024}}

They are called the {{lang|mhq|Mį́nįtaree}} ('to cross the water'){{r|nddpi}} by their allies, the [[Mandan]]; in [[Assiniboine language|Assiniboine]], the Assiniboine (called {{lang|hid|Hidusidi}} by the Hidatsa) know them as: {{lang|asb|wakmúhaza yúde, ȟewáktųkta}}<ref>{{Cite web
| title = AISRI Dictionary Database Search—prototype version. Assiniboine. "Montana"
| access-date = 2012-07-07
| url = http://zia.aisri.indiana.edu/~dictsearch/cgi-bin/testengltoxsrchNP.pl?host=zia&pass=&hasfont=0&srchlang=English&srchstring=hidatsa&database=assin&srchtype=AND&sortlang=English&sndformat=mp3&maxhits=20&find=Run_Search
}}</ref>

Occasionally they have also been confused with the [[Gros Ventres]] in present-day [[Montana]] and [[Prairie Provinces]] of Canada, which were part of the [[Arapahoan languages]] speaking peoples. 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 [[sedentary|semisedentary]] Hidatsa were known as ''Minnetarees of the Missouri'' or ''Gros Ventres of the Missouri''.{{Citation needed|date=April 2024}}