<html><div style='background-color:'><P>I have heard that some of the Cherokee dialects may have hinted at this from what I have heard there may be some basis. It's just a "bit" from some research that I did.<BR><BR></P>
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From: <I>David Costa <pankihtamwa@earthlink.net></I><BR>Reply-To: <I>siouan@lists.colorado.edu</I><BR>To: <I>siouan <siouan@lists.colorado.edu></I><BR>Subject: <I>grizzly bears</I><BR>Date: <I>Thu, 08 Jun 2006 09:42:36 -0700</I><BR><BR>
<META content="Microsoft SafeHTML" name=Generator>I'm posting this query on behalf of Michael McCafferty:<BR><BR><TT><BR>French voyageurs in the upper Missouri called the grizzly bear "l'ours <BR>blanc" ('white bear'). According to Patrick Gass and J. Ordway, two <BR>members of the Lewis and Clark expedition, this name came from the <BR>"Natives".<BR><BR>Does anyone know an Amerindian language in which the name for the <BR>grizzly corresponds to "white bear"?<BR><BR>Thank you very much,<BR><BR>Michael McCafferty<BR><FONT color=#0000ff><U>mmccaffe@indiana.edu<BR></U></FONT><BR></TT><BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></div></html>