‘the middle moon’) or wiotehika (‘the hard moon’)įebruary cannapopa wi(‘the moon when trees crack because of the cold’) or tiyoheyunka wi (‘moon where the frost is settling on the inside wall of the house or tent’) or wicata wi(‘the raccoon moon’) The Lakȟótiyapi word ‘ wi’ means ‘moon’ or ‘month’, and ‘ wiyawapi’ means ‘a months count or calendar’. Today’s blog post will take us to two First Nations in the US and Canada, and will be about the names of the months in Lakota or Lakȟótiyapi (also known as Sioux), a Siouan language spoken by the Lakota nation ( Lakȟóta) in North and South Dakota in the United States, and tell the Ojibwe ( Anishinaabe) legend of the origin of the dreamcatcher. Grabill, digital restoration by Michel Vuijlsteke via Wikipedia Commons
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