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Rez dog (short for reservation dog) is usually a term for outdoor, stray, and feral dogs living on Native reservations in the United States and Indian reserves in Canada. [1] The term has taken on many connotations , and has to some extent become an emblem of and metaphor for reservations/reserves, life on them, and indigenous North Americans ...
Buffalo meat and firewood were typical travois loads. [2] [3] According to The Canadian Encyclopedia, "The dog travois of pre-European times was small, capable of pulling not more than 20 to 30 kg." [4] Travel by dog travois was slower in hot weather, which is tiring for dogs. [5] The dog travois can be seen in the paintings of Karl Bodmer. [6]
Most words of Native American/First Nations language origin are the common names for indigenous flora and fauna, or describe items of Native American or First Nations life and culture. Some few are names applied in honor of Native Americans or First Nations peoples or due to a vague similarity to the original object of the word.
The Dog Warrior Society was established by a directive given in a visionary dream after the prophet Sweet Medicine's departure. This society was originally found in both the Northern and the Southern Cheyenne. Today it exists only among the Southern Cheyenne. [8] Crazy Dogs (Hotamémâsêhao'o), [3] also known as Foolish Dogs. This society is ...
Edward A. Goldman reported hearing the name from "several native hunters" in Panama in 1920. It is also reported as a native name for the howler monkey in Nicaragua. [188] Opossum (Didelphimorphia) marsupial: Powhatan: From aposoum ("white animal"), from Proto-Algonquian *wa·p-aʔθemwa ("white dog"), originally referring to the Virginia ...
The Blackfeet Nation is working to change buffalo numbers in the rolling hills of Montana. How one Native American tribe is working to restore Montana's buffalo population Skip to main content
Dog sacrifice is also practiced in Lakota religion, [187] an act generally seen as repugnant by many other Native American groups and European Americans. [188] One explanation given for this act is that the dog's spirit will receive a vision, which it can then relay back to a ritual specialist. [ 189 ]
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