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wetiko en · NOUN

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1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of wihtikow.
   alt of wihtikow
   • [Jack] Forbes states that the overriding characteristic of a wétiko, a Cree word literally meaning “cannibal,” is “that he consumes other human beings for profit, that is, he is a cannibal” […] 2001, Arturo J. Aldama, Disrupting Savagism:
   • Just then a Wetiko charged into view! 2005, Maggie Siggins, Bitter embrace: white society's assault on the Woodland Cree, page 141:
   • Pennisk wasn't afraid of the wetiko. 1994, Ronald Lavallée, translated by Patricia Claxton, Tchipayuk, or, The way of the wolf, page 208:

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