<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">John, you're a dollar short. It is called
"49 hill" named after a popular dance type. Most 49s take place
in out of the way places and often after dark. Singers stand in the middle
holding the drum and sing while surrounded by a relatively tight circle
of inward facing dancers. If you've every seen domestic turkeys huddled
into a closely pack circle dancing you will get the idea.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">The dance step is similar to a round
dance. Male and female dancers are paired, or at least intermixed. It is
an opportunity to sing and dance to love songs and other humorous ditties
while trying to snag a partner for an ongoing relationship. This is an
adult dance, after all.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">On the other topic:</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Omaha have quite a few so called "half
breed" names for family members who may be mixed blood and no clan
affiliation/name. Most are Omaha renderings of the English name. Grandma
Elizabeth Saunsoci Stabler (1905-1985) had no clan due to her paternal
lineage back to Louis Saunsoci, the french trader. Her Indian name was
"Thi'sabet". Other names include Julia=> Juthi', Jenny=>
JEniwiN', Mary=> Mathe', or Methe' (similar to the Hawaiian renderings
for Mary and Marie). I cannot call to mind male examples but I know I've
heard them. There were also half-breed names that were descriptive in some
fashion similar to the clan names. All of these names have never been gathered
and analyzed to my knowledge. Perhaps an interesting little project for
someone, enit?</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">For a time on the Omaha Reservation
at Macy the name "Bedrock" was being applied to one of the tribal
housing projects...taken from the Flintstones genre.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Sunrise Village, the oldest tribal housing
venture north of the tribal offices is still known by that name.</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Omaha Lodges is the housing project
due east of Macy.</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Oakleaf is the name applied to a housing
project between Macy and Walthill. I believe the name originates from the
early 20th century country school and township at that location.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Million dollar hill gets it name from
the speculated cost of improving that section of highway 75 back in the
early 20th century. It is a several miles long grade rising from south
to north along the east side of Macy. Grandpa Charles Stabler (1900-1992)
recalled how he worked on the grading because he had a team of horses available
for the job.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Uthixide</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Mark Awakuni-Swetland<br>
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UmoNhoN ie thethudi<br>
Omaha Language Spoken Here</font>
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<br><font size=2><tt>On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, shokooh Ingham wrote:<br>
> Interesting about the Omaha sounding place names in English. You
find<br>
> that also in the Gulf (Persian not Mexican) countries. ...<br>
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My language was ambiguous. I was thinking about places like Skunk
Hollow<br>
Road - namesake of the Skunk Hollow Singers, and a road through Macy named<br>
by Omahas - I should even remember the name of the name giver, but I<br>
don't. Skunk Hollow Road is named after a locale in Dogpatch of comic<br>
pages fame.<br>
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Or ... uh ... 48 ... Hill? I'm not sure I have the number of the
kind of<br>
place right there. It's a place named after a dance, I know, and
I think<br>
the number there changes with time, too. It's a pan-Plains thing,
I<br>
think. There are various folks explanations, but I once read that
it was<br>
probably a borrowing from English tent-show nomenclature, e.g., "Review
of<br>
'48."<br>
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Or the Million Dollar Hill (grade on the highway outside of town).<br>
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I just meant that the basis of these English language names was in Omaha<br>
culture and history, and often also in the Omaha sense of humor. It
was<br>
in that sense that I meant that they were characteristically Omaha, though<br>
English in form.<br>
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More venerable and closer to what you understood would be the town of<br>
Rosalie. Folks explained that it was named for a lady named Dhuzadhi
- a<br>
member of the LaFlesche family, I believe, though the details escape me
at<br>
the moment - and that Rosalie was just the English version of her name.<br>
I was a bit skeptical at the time, but I think they were right. I
hadn't<br>
realized at that point that certain French names - mostly with common<br>
English equivalents to confuse matters - had become Omaha personal names<br>
through the merger of the Omaha metis population with the Omaha tribe.
I<br>
actually suspect now that this may account for the lack of attested Omaha<br>
names for some of the better known metis figures. Very likely that
had<br>
Omaha names in most cases, but these were displaced by their metis names,<br>
which were, essentially, perceived as Omaha.<br>
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