Crazy Dog

A calque. C.f. Blackfoot kanáttsoomitaa, Crow bishkawaaláaxa, etc. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Crazy Dog (plural Crazy Dogs)

1. A member of one of the Crazy Dog warrior societies among the Plains Indians.

   Synonym: Foolish Dog

   • 1913, Robert H. Lowie, “Military Societies of the Crow Indians”, in Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, volume XI, part III, page 151:

     When his Hidatsa comrade died, Bear-gets-up left the Crazy Dogs. Lone-tree’s uncle, a Crazy Dog, froze to death; the Crazy Dogs met and gave property to Lone-tree, then about twenty years old, in order to make him join.

• Crazy Dog society, Crazy Dog Society

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Crazy Dog

1. A male given name of Native American usage
   • 1892 April, George Bird Grinnell, “Early Blackfoot history”, in American Anthropologist, volume 5, number 2, page 154:

     I give it below just as it was told me by Mr. J. W. Schultz, who received it from Crazy Dog, an old man of that tribe.