English

jackrabbit

Arapaho

wó'toteenóóku

Translation of the Arapaho

‘black-eared rabbit’

Technical Information

The White-tailed (Lepus townsendii) and Black-tailed (Lepus californicus) Jackrabbits both occur in the northern and central plains.

 

Jackrabbits and the Arapaho

Schoolcraft 1851 gives a different word, <vare hau ker> which might possibly be beexooku or something similar, meaning perhaps ‘big rabbit.’ The word is not used today. Hayden’s 1863 report gives what looks like heebet-ooku (‘big rabbit’), also no longer used.