Crazy Dog
English
editEtymology 1
editA calque. C.f. Blackfoot kanáttsoomitaa, Crow bishkawaaláaxa, etc. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Noun
editCrazy Dog (plural Crazy Dogs)
- A member of one of the Crazy Dog warrior societies among the Plains Indians.
- Synonym: Foolish Dog
- 1913, Robert H. Lowie, “Military Societies of the Crow Indians”, in Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, volume XI, part III, page 151:
- When his Hidatsa comrade died, Bear-gets-up left the Crazy Dogs. Lone-tree’s uncle, a Crazy Dog, froze to death; the Crazy Dogs met and gave property to Lone-tree, then about twenty years old, in order to make him join.
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Etymology 2
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Proper noun
edit- A male given name of Native American usage
- 1892 April, George Bird Grinnell, “Early Blackfoot history”, in American Anthropologist, volume 5, number 2, page 154:
- I give it below just as it was told me by Mr. J. W. Schultz, who received it from Crazy Dog, an old man of that tribe.