{"id":42068,"date":"2025-03-11T13:57:27","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T18:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=42068"},"modified":"2025-03-11T13:57:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T18:57:27","slug":"word-of-the-day-1027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/03\/11\/word-of-the-day-1027\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Travois<\/em>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-content__summary\">\n<blockquote><p>A travois, from the French word\u00a0<i>travail<\/i>, \u201cto work,\u201d was a device used for transportation by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca\/en\/article\/aboriginal-people-plains\">Plains Indigenous peoples<\/a>. Drawn by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca\/en\/article\/horse\">horses<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca\/en\/article\/dog\">dogs<\/a>, the travois carried people\u2019s goods to and from hunting sites and temporary settlements.<em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca\/en\/article\/travois\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The Canadian Encyclopedia<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/science\/2025\/03\/09\/travois-ancient-transportation-indigenous-americas\/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=newsletter&amp;carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F41810b6%2F67cdb7568e75cc50837bfe89%2F59ee10d9ae7e8a504fd8ecd3%2F31%2F50%2F67cdb7568e75cc50837bfe89\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Researchers find evidence of ancient \u2018transport technology\u2019 in New Mexico<\/em><\/a>,&#8221; Erin Blakemore, <em><strong>WaPo<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Researchers think the grooves are the remnants of tracks left behind by \u201ctravois,\u201d an ancient transport vehicle used before the invention of the wheel. The travois appear to have been made of poles that were either joined together at one end or crossed in the middle. Their users would have loaded them up with bulky objects, then grabbed the poles and dragged them behind them \u2014 similar to using a wheelbarrow or rickshaw with no wheels.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Travois: A travois, from the French word\u00a0travail, \u201cto work,\u201d was a device used for transportation by the\u00a0Plains Indigenous peoples. Drawn by\u00a0horses\u00a0or\u00a0dogs, the travois carried people\u2019s goods to and from hunting sites and temporary settlements. [The Canadian Encyclopedia] Noted in &#8220;Researchers find evidence of ancient \u2018transport technology\u2019 in New Mexico,&#8221; Erin \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/03\/11\/word-of-the-day-1027\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42069,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42068\/revisions\/42069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}