#longmont

Tous!

This address is on land shared by many tribes, including but not limited to the Ute, Arapaho, and Cheyenne people. The 1851 Treaty of Fort Laramie, not currently honored, refers to it as Arapaho land. This is the basis for Longmont’s sister city relationship with the Northern Arapaho Tribe (Wind River Reservation). In that spirit, I’m offering words in Hinono’eitiit, or the language of Hinono’eiteen (Arapaho Nation). This language surprised me by being in the Algonquian language family, but once you start speaking it’s so clear to hear! Longmont’s namesake is neniisotoyou'u (Longs Peak, Colorado, United States) and the wealth of knowledge in the Arapaho Language Project has place names for a number of your neighboring cities.

Hohóú for participating!

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Sources:

Dictionary of the Arapaho Language Fourth Edition (2012)

Arapaho Language Project with University of Colorado Boulder

City of Longmont, Colorado

Longmont, Colorado on Wikipedia

Longmont And Northern Arapaho Tribe Form A First-Of-Its-Kind Sister City Union - Colorado Public Radio

Indigenous Tribes of Colorado on American Library Association Offices

Arapaho on Wikipedia

Northern Arapaho Tribe

Home with Arapaho

Last night, while on a stroll along the shores of Lake McIntosh (a few blocks from my house in Longmont, Colorado) I came across a great horned owl who, for a few moments, put on a bit of a show. I regularly see owls around the lake at this time of night but normally they are barely discernible bulbous shadows high up in the trees, hooting into the darkness. I can rarely get closer than a hundred feet or so before they fly away.