land=mother???

[Dayna Bowker Lee]

The Caddo use ?i-nah wah-dut (mother earth), sometimes just i-nah (?
"Because the Caddo came out of the ground they call it ina, mother, and go
back to it when they die" (Mooney 1896:1093-4).


----- Original Message -----
From: "Catherine Rudin/HU/AC/WSC" <CaRudin1 at wsc.edu>
To: <siouan at lists.colorado.edu>
Cc: "Randy Bertolas/SS/AC/WSC" <raberto1 at wsc.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 11:13 AM
Subject: land=mother???


>
> A colleague here at Wayne State is writing something about Native American
> vs. European views of "the land" and asked me if any Native American
> languages have a word for land that means/is derived from "mother" (or
> presumably vice versa).  I said not to my knowledge but I'd ask around a
> bit.    So....  Anyone know of any such thing in Siouan?   Or elsewhere?
> He'd probably be interested in any other metaphorical ways of refering to
> land too, and anything that indicates land conceived of as a possession
(or
> not).
>
> I'll forward anything interesting to him, or if you "reply to all" he
> should get it.  Thanks,
> Catherine
>
>