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piskun [< Algonk.: Blackfoot pis'kun deep blood kettle] Hist. 
n. a type of buffalo jump surrounded by steep cliffs, used by Plains Indians in slaughtering buffalo.
See also: buffalo jump
- 1928 (1936) Place-names of Alberta--Jumping Pond, west of Calgary, should properly, of course, be Jumping Pound. The Blackfoot original, Nimapiskan, contains the root form, piskan.
- 1950 Then came the Stone-Hearts killing us with great sicknesses . . . shutting us up on reserves, like bulls in a piskun. . . .
- 1952 The piskun was a communal enterprise and the buffalo thus slain were distributed equally.
- 1928 (1936) Place-names of Alberta--Jumping Pond, west of Calgary, should properly, of course, be Jumping Pound. The Blackfoot original, Nimapiskan, contains the root form, piskan.