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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I enjoyed your poetic description of Nebraska this
time of year. Here in north central Oklahoma, the green grass and winter
wheat is starting to show, and people around here are planting potatoes and
frying up wild onions. The shinny games will start soon--in April--giving
people the chance to get outside and run around after the winter.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm not saying much linguistic, except that I did
find out from Henry Lieb the meaning of the third Ponca term in the minimal
triplet for vowel length and stress that I wrote about in a previous
message: s^ee'dhaN (shee'thaN) 'the (round, inanimate) apple'; s^e'dhaN
(she'thaN) 'that (round, inamimate object)'; and s^edhaN' (shethaN')
'broken.'</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Kathy</FONT></DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A href="mailto:mawakuni-swetland2@unl.edu"
title=mawakuni-swetland2@unl.edu>Mark Awakuni-Swetland</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
href="mailto:siouan@lists.colorado.edu"
title=siouan@lists.colorado.edu>Siouan</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, March 19, 2001 7:03
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Back to the Platte</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>19 March 2001</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2></FONT><FONT size=2>From the earlier
discussion about the term Nibthaska and its reference to
"shallowness?"</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>In the preface to La Flesche's "The Middle Five," he notes
that..."Most of the country now known as the State of Nebraska (the Omaha name
of the river Plattt, descriptive of its shallowness, width, and low banks)..."
(1963:xix).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>The geese are coming back, so the warm weather
will soon be here to stay.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Aloha,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>uthixide</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Mark Awakuni-Swetland,
Lecturer<BR>Anthropology/Ethnic Studies<BR>c/o Department of
Anthropology-Geography<BR>University of Nebraska<BR>Bessey Hall
132<BR>Lincoln, NE 68588-0368<BR>Office 402-472-3455<BR>Dept.
402-472-2411<BR>FAX 402-472-9642<BR><A
href="mailto:mawakuni-swetland2@unl.edu">mawakuni-swetland2@unl.edu</A></FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>