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<FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>Thanks Cantemaza<BR>
I immediately thought of the pie connection too, but it seemed inappropriate. I wondered whether it could refer to ‘tobacco ties’, though I suppose pemni is not the first root to spring to mind in that connection. Philamayaye<BR>
Yours<BR>
Bruce<BR>
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On 26/8/05 6:16 pm, "Cantemaza" <mckay020@umn.edu> wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'> Pemni Wichak'upi Does anyone know what the term Pemni Wichak’upi may mean. I have it from a tape on the subject of religion. It is in reference to a ceremony and I presume it is a Lakota ceremony. It just might refer to Holy Communion, but I don’t think so because that is referred to in the same context as Yutapi Wakhan Icupi. I wondered whether the pemni were ‘tobacco ties”. Hope someone can help<BR>
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Bruce <BR>
</SPAN></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>I have not heard this myself but we (Bdewakantunwan Dakota hemaca do) do have a word for pie, wo'pemni s'paN. I haven't been to a ceremony yet where pie is used so I'm pretty sure that is not it he-he. Wo'pemni s'paN means the thing that's cooked round or in a circle (taspaN wo'pemni s'paN - apple pie).<BR>
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-Cantemaza de miye do.<BR>
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