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while on the Arkansas two years after Lewis and Clark's expedition. In Lakota, the word is pispíza or pìspíza.

Classification and first identification

The black-tailed prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus) was first described by Lewis and Clark in 1804. Lewis described it in more detail in 1806, calling it the "barking squirrel".
* Order Rodentia
* Suborder Sciuromorpha

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