suggestions for Indigenismo to nonindigenous audience

[Manuel Angel Cardenas]

Saludos a todos,

Actually...I believe Christy is correct.  Chicago, so I am told is an
indigenous word that means "place of the wild onions"

chao

Manuel Angel Cardenas
Yax Chan Chaak
mcarde4 at uic.edu

On Mon, 19 Jul 1999 cristi at ix.netcom.com wrote:

> I wouldn't be able to believe that with wild onions all around them
> (as there are all over north america), there would be a large group
> of native americans who had never learned that they tasted good....
>
> Cristi
>