Jul 10 2006
Look to the skies…
July 10, 2006 Full Buck Moon
Way back in the beginning, the Native American’s gave distinctive names to each of the full moons to keep track of the seasons. The name applied to the period until the next full moon.
July’s full moon is most commonly known as the Full Buck Moon because the new antlers of the buck deer begin to emerge through his forehead.
It may also be known as the Full Thunder Moon because thunderstorms are more frequent during the month of July.
Hi Tania, I find Native American’s traditions interisting. Is ther a certain Tribe that named the Full Buck Moon and the Full Thunder Moon?
According to the Old Farmer’s Almanac, these names derived from the Algonquin tribe.
The Algonquin people have been living in the region that is now known as western Quebec and North/ Eastern Ontario in Canada for over 6,000 years.
Here’s a little more information taken from Wikipedia.
“The Algonquins or Algonkins are an aboriginal North American people speaking Algonquin, an Algonquian language. Culturally and linguistically, they are closely related to the Odawa and Ojibwe, with whom they form the larger Anishinaabe grouping.
The tribe has also given its name to the much larger, heterogenous group of Algonkian peoples, who stretch from Virginia to the Rocky Mountains and north to Hudson Bay. Most Algonkins, however, live in Quebec; the nine Algonkin bands in that province and one in Ontario have a combined population of about 11,000.”