Going Home Day

proper noun

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.

OriginBlackfoot aahkiáápiksistsiko- →
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Meanings

proper nounGoing Home Day (plural Going Home Days)

plural Going Home Days

  1. 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.

Origin

  1. Blackfootaahkiáápiksistsiko-
  2. EnglishGoing Home Day

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

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APA

Going Home Day. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Going%20Home%20Day

MLA

“Going Home Day.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Going%20Home%20Day. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Going Home Day,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Going%20Home%20Day.

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