Some Vocab : "Thoka WaN Itkokip Ohitike KiN He"(Jan 1944)

[Clive Bloomfield]

On 07/01/2008, at 4:55 PM, Clive Bloomfield wrote:

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> Waniyetu iwoblu thanka, na thate thanka, nainsh oyate  
> thawicoh^'anpi kin , hena ecela un hecheca shni. Tkha taku oyas'in  
> un hecheca.
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> Mniwanca khowakatan okichize thanka k'un hehan lila wichoshkinciye,  
> pte waniyanpi wichayuhapi kin thalo yutapi kta cha un  
> wiyophewicakiya iyowinwichakhiyapi na iyowichapashtakapi.
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> Tanyan mazaska iyuwinpi, tkha mazaska kin wiyopheya glusotapi na  
> ptegleshka optaye thanka ota k'un conala oglaptapi.
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> [=It had not been only the blizzard, the tornadoes, the customs of  
> the people. It had been everything.
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> In the boom days during the world war they had been encouraged to  
> sell their cattle for beef.
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> It had brought in money, but the money had been spent and the herds  
> depleted.]
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> Ho he iyohakap taku oyas'in khul iyaye k'un he e, na omakha puze  
> k'un he e, na thate s'a k'un hena hiyawichagle kin hechun.
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> Ptegleshka optaye tonakel owichaglaptapi k'un hena hehanl t'api.
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> Wana lila waniyetu ota thate s'a kin he oblaye makhoche thowashte  
> tka k'un ohiniyan thate, chankhe makhoche kin akanl ooshkinciye  
> washte tkha k'un he ataya thate kin ikaphan ih^peye.
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> [=Then had come the Depression and the drought and the winds.
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> What had remained of the herds had died.
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> For years now the winds had blown over the plains, beating to dust  
> the life of the plains.]


Both above quotations from Lakhota tr. by Emil AFRAID-OF -HAWK of  
"Brave Against the Enemy", Ann NOLAN CLARK (Haskell Institute  
Printing Dept., Lawrence, Kansas, Jan 1944) - Page 21.
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> More than a couple of  handy 'new' (well, new-ish, given it was  
> 1944) vocabulary items there, wouldn't you say folks?

1) :  Mniwa'nca khoa'kataN Oki'chize Tha'Nka K'uN =The Great War/The  
World War (lit. 'the great war across/beyond the ocean").

2) :  Ta'ku oya's'iN Khul Iya'ye K'uN = The Great Depression/the  
Slump/World Recession (lit. "the (time in the past when/the fact  
that) everything went down/took a nose-dive").

3) :  li'la wicho'shkinciye = the boom days (in this case, of course,  
the Lakhota cattle boom during WWI, and during the early 20s.)

4) :  obla'ye makho'che tho'washte tkha k'uN (here, perhaps)= the  
former/erstwhile bountifulness (lit. 'its goodness') of the plains  
country/prairies.

5) :  makho'che kin aka'Nl oo'shkinciye washte' tkha k'uN (perhaps,  
in context) = the former days of the 'goodlife'/prosperity on the  
land/the man on the land's salad days, his heyday.



Fascinatingly, E AOH uses "wichasha ikceka" (p.51) for  
"Frenchman" (France or Canada), and "UNciyapi Thamakhoche ekta  
washicu ikceka" (p.49) for "French-Canadian".

Could this be another clue that he really did belong to a much  
earlier generation, even in the 40s?

Regards,

Clive.


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