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Going Home Day

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.

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.

Forms of Going Home Day

pluralGoing Home Days

Origin of Going Home Day

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

Questions about Going Home Day

What does Going Home Day mean?
Going Home Day 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.
What part of speech is Going Home Day?
Going Home Day is a proper noun.

Words near Going Home Day in the dictionary

  1. going hard in the paint
  2. going haywire
  3. going Hollywood
  4. going home
  5. going home club
  6. Going Home Day
  7. Going Home Days
  8. going horribly right
  9. going hostile
  10. going hungry
  11. going in

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