Going Home Day

English

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Going Home Day (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

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References

  • Frantz, Donald G.; Genee, Inge (2016–2023), Blackfoot Online Dictionary‎[1], University of Toronto Press
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