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The Comanche people call this event "urui mua," or "hot moon," and the Kalapuya people refer to it as "ameku," meaning "mid summer moon," according to the Western Washington University Planetarium website.
Other Indigenous groups, including the Mohawk, Apache, Cherokee and Passamaquoddy peoples, named the July moon with references to "ripening." Some are more specific to fruit, like the Anishnaabe's "aabita-niibino-giizis," meaning "raspberry moon" and the Assiniboine's "wasasa," or "red berries." The Zuni tribe, from what is now New Mexico, says "dayamcho yachunne," meaning "limbs are broken by fruit.".In contrast, Europeans use the term "hay moon" as a nod to the haymaking season of June and July, according to NASA.