English

squirrel, red

Arapaho

1. honi’ (older word) ; 2. nó'ou(h) (newer word)

Technical Information

Tamiasciurus hudsonicus

 

Squirrels and the Arapaho

Henry Schoolcraft’s report from 1851 gives a word <ee nah nun ee> which looks like hiineen-oni’, meaning perhaps ‘wandering rodent’.