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Going Home Day
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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Origin
Calque of Blackfoot aahkiáápiksistsiko- (literally “day of going home”).
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