(4) Beaver-Moon.—p. 6.
With the Indians every month has a name expressive of its season. The appellations will vary of course as the circumstance which gives the month its name is more or less hastened or deferred. The "corn-moon" of the Iroquois, on the northern lakes, would hardly be the corn-moon of the Creeks in Georgia. The Northern Indians call March, (the month in which their year begins,) the worm-month, because in this month the worms quit their retreats in the bark of the trees, where they have sheltered themselves during the winter.
April is the moon of plants.
May the moon of flowers.
June the hot moon.
July the buck-moon.
August is called the sturgeon-moon, because that fish becomes abundant in this month.
September, the corn-moon, because the corn is gathered in that month.
October, the travelling-moon; as at this time they leave their villages, and travel towards the place where they intend to spend the winter.
November, the beaver-moon; the month of commencing their hunts for the beaver.