Indigenous Names
- Cree - sang-gwiss, shakzuashew or atjackasheiv
- Ojibwe - shang-gwes'-se
- Chipewyan - tel-chu'-say
- Ogallala Sioux - lo-chin'-cha
- Yankton Sioux - doke-sesch
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“What is a country without rabbits and partridges? They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products; ancient and venerable families known to antiquity as to modern times; of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground,—and to one another; it is either winged or it is legged. It is hardly as if you had seen a wild creature when a rabbit or a partridge bursts away, only a natural one, as much to be expected as rustling leaves.”
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