Passages of interest from "Brave Ag. the Enemy"

[Clive Bloomfield]

Couple of amendments for clarity's sake.

On 12/02/2008, at 1:18 PM, Clive Bloomfield wrote:

> 1)  (a) Ann NOLAN CLARK's English Original, 1944. [Page 18]
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> Joe :      ".... There is a bull to sire a herd!"]
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>      (b) Emil AFRAID-OF-HAWK's translation [Page 19] :
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> J. : "Thabloka kin le etan optaye washte wan ichagapi okihi hecha  
> yelo!"
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> Questions. :
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> Is thabloka kin le the subject of hecha - but NOT of okihi - (as I  
> took it to be), and therefore does postposition etan here have a  
> indirect relative sense "from which"?
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>

> 2.) (a) Ann NOLAN CLARK's Original [Page 18]
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> "....( for forty years ....) a herd...."]
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>      (b) Emil AFRAID-OF-HAWK's Translation [Page 19] :

> ".... (waniyetu wikcemna top) ptegleshka optaye wan ..."
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>
>      (c) A back-translation from the Lakota :
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> " .... a  herd of cattle (for 40 years)...."
>

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