Historical questions

Alan Hartley ahartley at d.umn.edu
Fri Jan 2 03:25:42 UTC 2004


Rory M Larson wrote:

> what
> did the Missouria call themselves?  What did their Siouan
> neighbors (Osage, Kaw, Quapaw, Oto and Iowa) call them?

"The Missouria name for themselves was Ni-u-t'a-tci [the u and final i
carry acute accents] (Dorsey 1897:240)" (HNAI 13.461) The synonymy also
gives Ioway, Omaha-Ponca, Quapaw, Osage and Kansa forms.



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