An American Eskimo by the name of Stout’s Pal Pierre was a tightrope walker for the Barnum and Bailey Circus. Popular Names Besides a few very apt names like Ghost, most American Eskimo names will be the same as any other dog breed. According to Rover.com, these are the most popular...
German Spitzes were eventually brought to America, where the name changed to American Eskimo Dog due to the widespread anti-German feelings during World War I. Today they are known as a separate breed, but are closely related to the German Spitz. The Samoyed, the white Keeshond the white ...
An American Eskimo dog is a very loving dog. This white dog breed is a very friendly breed. These friendly dogs are the best companions of the human beings. The picture of these dogs represents lightness, and beauty. These dogs are available in various sizes from small to medium size dogs...
9 RegisterLog in Sign up with one click: Facebook Twitter Google Share on Facebook Great Plains (redirected fromAmerican Great Plains) Thesaurus Encyclopedia Great Plains A vast grassland region of central North America extending from the Canadian provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba south...
maq for ‘snow shoveler’), chipmunk, husky (which has the same root word as Eskimo), moose, muskrat, opossum (‘white dog like animal’ in Powhatan), raccoon, skunk (which means something close to ‘urine fox’ in Massachusett), and woodchuck are all based on Algo...
Eskimo mythologystar names in folk traditionsettling of AmericaThe mythological motif of the Cosmic Hunt is peculiar to Northern and Central Eurasia and for the Americas but seems to be absent in other parts of the globe. Two distinct Eurasian versions demonstrate North-American parallels at the ...
Curiously the husky dog [M19th] gets its name from Huskemaw, a Newfoundland dialect form of ‘Eskimo’, it being an ‘Eskimo dog’. Inuit has given us kayak [M18th] from qayaq, igloo [M19th] from iglu‘house’, and from Greenlandic anorak [E20th] from anoraq, while the parka [...
The last-named, the Ugalenzes of the Russians, call themselves Chilkhatmut, and are undoubtedly true Eskimo; although fre-quently confounded with the Thlinkeets, on whose domain they converge. The few Innuit tribes east of the Mackenzie have not been classified, but two of them, the Net...
Along the whole northwest coast, from the Columbia to the Eskimo border, the prevailing type was the rectangular board structure, painted with symbolic designs and with the great totem pole, carved with the heraldic crests of the owner, towering above the doorway. On the Yukon we find the ...
In addition, a number ofNative Americangroups are known better by their Algonquianexonyms, rather than by theirautonym, such as theEskimo(see below),Winnebago(perhaps fromPotawatomiwinpyéko, "(people of the) dirty water"),[4]Sioux(ultimately fromOttawanaadowesiwag),[4]Assiniboine(Ojibweasinii...