Ponca-Pawnee Name Inquiry

[Justin McBride]

Mark,

I can vaguely imagine the "Box ka re sha" part being ppah(i) ska dheze, 'white hair, tongue...,' and can even imagine "hash ta ka" containing the word ha, 'skin,' possibly in reference to skin color.  I just can't place the remaining shtege/shteke/xtege/xteke part, and don't see anything like unto a Kaw word for 'curly.'  But that CteCe bit does look kinda Siouan, no?

-Justin 


----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Mark J Awakuni-Swetland 
  To: siouan at lists.colorado.edu 
  Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 8:01 AM
  Subject: Ponca-Pawnee Name Inquiry



  Good Morning All, 
  I received this inquiry from John Carter at the Nebraska State Historical Society. Any speculations on this name? 
  Many thanks, 
  Uthixide 

  Mark Awakuni-Swetland, Ph.D.
  http://omahalanguage.unl.edu

  ----- Forwarded by Mark J Awakuni-Swetland/UNLAS/UNL/UNEBR on 08/23/2007 07:57 AM ----- 
        "John Carter" <jcarter at nebraskahistory.org> 
        08/22/2007 04:16 PM 
       To "Mark Awakuni-Sweltand" <mawakuni-swetland2 at unl.edu>  
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              Subject Another question 

              

       

  Mark 
  I am working on some stuff on Julius Meyer, the German Jew in Omaha who claimed to speak six languages and opened the Indian goods store on Farnam Street. 
  He claimed to have been given and Indian name, which he spelled Box ka re sha hash ta ka, which he translated as “Curly haired white man with one tongue.”  I have two accounts, one that he got it from the Pawnee and one that he got if from the Ponca.  I asked James Riding In if that name made sense to him:  he thought it more likely that it was “Curly haired white dude who that a buffalo robe was worth a carton of Marlboros.”  It does look like one of those Pawnee jawbreakers but I thought I would just shoot it across your bow for an opinion.   

  Thoughts? 

  Thanks, John 
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