Back to the Platte

[Kathleen Shea]

I enjoyed your poetic description of Nebraska this time of year.  Here in north central Oklahoma, the green grass and winter wheat is starting to show, and people around here are planting potatoes and frying up wild onions.  The shinny games will start soon--in April--giving people the chance to get outside and run around after the winter.

I'm not saying much linguistic, except that I did find out from Henry Lieb the meaning of the third Ponca term in the minimal triplet for vowel length and stress that I wrote about in a previous message:  s^ee'dhaN (shee'thaN) 'the (round, inanimate) apple'; s^e'dhaN (she'thaN) 'that (round, inamimate object)'; and s^edhaN' (shethaN') 'broken.'

Kathy
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Mark Awakuni-Swetland 
  To: Siouan 
  Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 7:03 AM
  Subject: Back to the Platte


  19 March 2001
  From the earlier discussion about the term Nibthaska and its reference to "shallowness?"
   
  In the preface to La Flesche's "The Middle Five," he notes that..."Most of the country now known as the State of Nebraska (the Omaha name of the river Plattt, descriptive of its shallowness, width, and low banks)..." (1963:xix).
   
  The geese are coming back, so the warm weather will soon be here to stay.
   
  Aloha,
  uthixide
   

  Mark Awakuni-Swetland, Lecturer
  Anthropology/Ethnic Studies
  c/o Department of Anthropology-Geography
  University of Nebraska
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