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There are many hundreds of native languages in North America alone; many thousands throughout North, Central and South America. Many of the native names for wolf are descriptive (such as the Lakota term "big dog in the wilderness"). Just a few examples are:

Arapaho................................hóóxei (heebetóóxei is a large wolf)

Cheyenne.............................ho'nehe or ho'neheo'o

Blackfoot..............................ómahkapi's or maku'ya

Mahican................................mixjaw ("shame-faced animal")

Maliseet................................malsom

Delaware (Lenape)...............metirnmeu ("hairy dung")

Shawnee..............................mowhewa or m'waewah

Mohegan..............................muchquashim or muks

Naskapi.................................miihiihkin

Ojibwe..................................ma'iingan

Powhatan.............................naantam

Abenaki................................môlsem

Navajo..................................ma'iitsoh

Apache..................................banchu or mahtzo

Jicarilla...................................baietso

Kiowa....................................gu'i

Arikara (Sanish)....................sĉiRIhkaapinát

Sahaptin (Yakama)...............lalawísh or xálish

Choctaw...............................nashoba

Creek....................................yaha

Mohawk................................okwaho

Cherokee..............................wahya

Tlingit...................................ghuch

Lakota..................................shungmanitu thanka

Crow.....................................cheéta

Hidatsa.................................motsa [botsa] or tsesa

Aztec (Nahuatl).....................cuetlachtli or nexcoyotl

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