calumet de paix

[Alan Hartley]

Rory M Larson wrote:

>>>The other two Teton chiefs recognized in the same ceremony were:
>>>
>>>Un-ton gar-Sar bar, Black Buffalow
>>>
>>>Tar-ton-gar-wa-ker, Buffalow medison
>>>
>>>The latter seems good Teton (dropping the r's), but what about the
>>>former? What is "Un-ton gar"?
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>>I don't know.  The second part looks like thaNka 'big', of course.
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> Could the "Un" be short for oN'phoN, with a mistranslation of
> "Buffalow" for "Elk"?

That would be uncharacteristically drastic truncation for these journals.

Alan