Need help with name.

[Rankin, Robert L]

This particular biologist, Kelly Kindscher, reelicited the H.K. Smith ethnobotany in cooperation with Kenny Funmaker's language program in Mauston several years ago and later published it in a botanical journal.  I had passed along a copy of the Smith MS to him.  This is a journal that requires abstracts in a second language, and in this case that language is Hocank -- probably a unique event!  The Nebraska tribe now wants him to help them obtain a better, and active knowledge and understanding of their tradition and he's agreed to help them.  He's the author of books on medicinal and food plants of the Prairie.
 
Bob

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On Thu, 11 May 2006, Rankin, Robert L wrote:
> Thanks for the help, guys.  One of the KU profs has been asked by the
> Nebraska Winnebagos to help them with a medicinal ethnobotany project
> the tribe is undertaking.

I wonder if they are aware of the Huron K. Smith ms. on Winnebago
ethnobotany in the Milwaukee Museum?  I think this is one of the two or
three in his series of Wisconsin ethnobotanies that were left unpublished
when he and his family were killed at a railroad crossing during a weekend
drive.  One of the others was Iroquian, though I've forgotten which.