English Explanatory Dictionary

Going Home Day

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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  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.

Word forms

Going Home Day Going Home Days

Etymology

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

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