ni'nah

Updated: May 2, 2025

This is the word used to indicate any old man, though its meaning is often loosely given as white. An analysis of the word Na'pi, however, shows it to be compounded of the word Ni'nah, man, and the particle a'pi, which expresses a color, and which is never used by itself, but always in combination with some other word.

George Bird Grinnell - Blackfoot Lodge Tales : The Story of a Prairie People