Dhegihanists: Ethnonyms for SE tribes?

[rlarson at unlnotes01.unl.edu]

I've checked Fletcher & LaFlesche, and also the
Stabler-Swetland dictionary.  For "Cherokee", the
latter has:

che'thuki  (corruption of English-no Omaha word)


Of the ethnonyms requested, Fletcher & LaFlesche
list only Caddo.  (Pawnee is Pa'thiN.)

Caddo, Pa'thiNwasabe.  This name means "black Pawnee."


Apologies if this has already been covered.  I just
got back from a week-and-a-half vacation.


Rory





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On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, R. Rankin wrote:
> Awhile back I was asked to provide Dhegiha names for
> the various tribes of the aboriginal Southeast.  I
> found several in my Kansa and Quapaw notes, but I
> wonder if any of you have more from Osage, Omaha or
> Ponca?  These would include names for the Cherokee,
> Creek (Muskogee), Choctaw, Chickasaw, Shawnee and
> presumably Caddo, plus a variety of others if they can
> be discovered.

There is a list of Omaha ethnonyms in Fletcher & LaFlesche that has some
of these, I think.  There's also a list in Howard's Ponca Tribe, and I
know some of them appear in LaFlesche for Osage.  Unfortunately, those are
the only sources for Dhegiha ethnonyms that I know of, other than possible
random inclusions in ethnographic material or texts.