Terms for "white man"

Mary Marino mary.marino at usask.ca
Tue Mar 16 18:13:53 UTC 2004


S^ahiya  is current among Canadian Dakota speakers for 'Cree'.  I've never
recorded S^ahiyena.

Mary



At 09:49 AM 3/16/2004 -0700, you wrote:
>On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Bruce Ingham wrote:
> > Does it however still refer to 'speaking red' or is it unanalyzable?
>
>Historically s^ahi'yela 'Cheyenne' seems to be 'little Cree', i.e.,
>s^ahi'ya (not current in Santee or Teton as far as I know) referred to the
>Cree.  I suppose one would have to call the longer form unanalyzable in
>terms of modern Dakotan.



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