Etymology

Going Home Day

Today it means: A historically important Blackfoot date centered on the day mid-way between the summer and winter solstice, important to the Blackfoot Confederacy due to the ancestral tracking of bison seasonal migration. Full definition →

Blackfoot aahkiáápiksistsiko-
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  1. Blackfoot · calque ofaahkiáápiksistsiko-
  2. English todayGoing Home Day

Calque of Blackfoot aahkiáápiksistsiko- (literally “day of going home”).

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