Sign Language (was Dances with Wolves)

[lcumberl at indiana.edu]

Glad you pointed that out - I should have qualified that comment. The few who
were at the gathering claimed to belong to the "larger Nakota nation" based on
their perception of lots of 'n's in their language. The folks who organized the
conference didn't have any particular criteria for attendance beyond people's
own perceptions. I which now that I had asked more questions at the time but
there was a lot going on. I don't think the perception of these few presents any
challenge to the statment in Parks and DeMallie 1992.

-L

Quoting Marino <mary.marino at usask.ca>:

> At 01:02 PM 1/24/2005, you wrote:
> >Quoting cstelfer at ucalgary.ca:
> >
> >I observed this at the first "No Borders" gathering of all peoples who
> >self-designate as Nakota, which incluldes Assiniboine, Stoney, (and
> Yanktonai,
> >although there were only two or three of them there).
>
> Do the Yanktonai self-designate as Nakota?   Parks and DeMallie say they do
> not, in their 1992 article in Anthropological Linguistics, on the basis of
> data gathered during the Sioux Dialect Survey.
>
> Mary Marino/University of Saskatchewan
>
>