The Arikara        Home Page

The Arikara  lived by the Mississippi River.  The were farmers as well as hunters.  There is about 3,000  descendents of them today.  There name means Horns.  The they they got their name because they put their hair in bones and  it looked like horns.  The crop corn was a part of their religion.  In the year 1862 they settled in reservations.