Showing posts with label Native American. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Native American. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

"How" Cute


The word "How" (haau) is used common as a greeting, perhaps inaccurately, by some Native Americans. The Oxford English Dictionary claims that the word was originally used by missionary Jean de Brébeuf to indicate an "sign of approval" and was used by the Huron or Wyandot tribes. But how cute are these Native American cut-outs?

Friday, November 6, 2009

Cutie Papoose


The word "papoose" comes from the Algonquian Indian word "papoos" and means "child". The word came originally from the Narragansett. This crochet mother and papoose likely came from the 1970s.