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I'm posting this query on behalf of Michael McCafferty:<BR>
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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>
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Does anyone know an Amerindian language in which the name for the <BR>
grizzly corresponds to "white bear"?<BR>
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Thank you very much,<BR>
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Michael McCafferty<BR>
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