Osage name

Tom Leonard tmleonard at cox.net
Wed Sep 5 14:02:10 UTC 2007


 
<http://preview.artstor.org.ezproxy1.lib.ou.edu/SRU/validator.htm?id=%2FzJDciJIKTMxKS8wdTs%3D&source=swr&sourceid=I10678>If 
you check on the Smithsonian website (http://siris-archives.si.edu/) you 
will find at least seven (7) photographs of this individual. Smithsonian 
has it listed as O-tho'-wa-the, or "Well to Follow".

Also, if I am not mistaken the family has abbreviated the name and now 
goes by "Lohah".

Hope this helps.

Tom Leonard
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Justin McBride wrote:
> I'm not near my Osage names book right now (Louis Burns's "Osage 
> Indian Bands and Clans"), but I can tell you from having researched 
> that book fairly extensively that -walla is a causative form, i.e., 
> -waðe, where ðe is the causative and wa- is doing whatever wa- does 
> (valence reduction).  I've noticed the same phenomenon in old Kaw 
> census data, where the name noNppe-waye ('inspires fear') is written 
> in Agent-ese as No-pah-walla.  Not so sure what olohah would be, 
> though.  Oloha/e?  Aloha/e?  And maybe the l is kl, maybe the h is 
> x... It could be any number of things, I suppose.
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>     *From:* Jonathan Holmes <mailto:okibjonathan at yahoo.com>
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>     *Subject:* Osage name
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>     I'm looking for a translation to the name of an Osage man from
>     Pawhuska, OK who lived in the late 1800s.
>      
>     The name is Olohawalla. Perhaps seperated as O-Lohah-Walla.
>      
>     Could anyone help with a possible translation?
>     <http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=48224/*http://sims.yahoo.com/>
>
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