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Medicine Hat area bug id request

Started By sweetgrass , Aug 11 2019 9:46 AM

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#1 Offline sweetgrass - Posted August 11 2019 - 9:46 AM

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#2 Offline gcsnelling - Posted August 11 2019 - 11:28 AM

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Milkweed long horn beetle (Tetraopes).

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#3 Offline AntJohnny - Posted August 11 2019 - 11:33 AM

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So I have to ask. What kinda place is called Medicine Hat and just... Why?

#4 Offline rbarreto - Posted August 11 2019 - 1:25 PM

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So I have to ask. What kinda place is called Medicine Hat and just... Why?

Its the English translation of an Algonquian word.

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#5 Offline sweetgrass - Posted August 11 2019 - 2:20 PM

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No. Alberta. No Algonquin for thousands of miles
Crew and Blackfoot territory. The Medicine Man lost his specula headdress in a battle and it floated down the South Saskatchewan river to where they city now is.

Kinda rude comment.
Cree not crew. Stupid spellcheck
Special not specula

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#6 Offline rbarreto - Posted August 11 2019 - 2:23 PM

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They spoke the Blackfoot language, which was Algonquian.

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#7 Offline sweetgrass - Posted August 11 2019 - 2:24 PM

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Thank you for the id

It is a red milkweed beetle

#8 Offline AntJohnny - Posted August 16 2019 - 10:32 AM

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I just had to ask I never heard of a place called anything like that. Where I live all the town's and cites are named after the Indian tribes that lived there. I always liked learning about the names.