solarcat:indigenous-consent:islandsir26: boychic: mapsontheweb: Map of Native American etymologies f
solarcat:indigenous-consent:islandsir26: boychic: mapsontheweb: Map of Native American etymologies for “horse”. There were no horses in the Americas before the colonists arrived. Native Americans quickly developed new words for this strange animal, often associating them with dogs, their one other domestic animal before contact with Europe. @coyotecure your tags have me cackling omfg Well the Mohawk language is very descriptive “it is ridden” makes perfect sense Cherokee is also very descriptive. ᏐᏈᎵ. sogwili. I’m in love with the fact that so many of these seem to indicate that people looked at this animal and went “… big dog.” -- source link