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<DIV><FONT color=#800080>Rory:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#800080>Mary Gale LaFlesche, mother of Francis LaF, was raised
primarily by her Ioway-Otoe mother, ŅiGunaMi, who kept regular contact with both
village groups. As such, her first language was IO, and there is no
information as to which dialect dominated Mary's or her mother's
speech. However, in as much as Mary's grandfather was
Ioway Leader ("chief") WajinWasje) and her Otoe grandmother, Thunder Eagle
Woman, in turn she was the daughter of an Otoe Leader ("chief") and
an Omaha mother. The grandparents lived in the area of Bellevue, NE.
Mary's father, Dr. Gale, an Army surgeon played no role in her
life.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#800080></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#800080>IO political and social mores of the day would suggest
that Mary's and her Mother's speech would tend towards Ioway in
dialect. When she was about pre-adolescence or earlier, her step-father, a
French (speaking) Fur trader, Peter Sarpy (a not very French sounding name) with
the American Fur Company sent Mary to a Saint Louis French school where she
learned to speak French. No doubt, Mary had gained some familiarity with
Omaha from the activity of the Trading Post. However, when she married
Joseph LaFlesche, who was equally bilingual in Omaha and French, Omaha
became her dominant language, and the first language of all her children.
Neither Mary nor Joseph spoke or understood English.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#800080>Perhaps the above will provide some insight on
possible language influence of Mary on her son Francis's Omaha speech patterns
reflected in his written works.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT
color=#800080>Jimm </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=rlarson@unlnotes.unl.edu href="mailto:rlarson@unlnotes.unl.edu">Rory
M Larson</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=siouan@lists.colorado.edu
href="mailto:siouan@lists.colorado.edu">siouan@lists.colorado.edu</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, September 27, 2006 10:09
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Omaha fricative set</DIV>
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<P><TT>John Koontz wrote:</TT><BR><BR><BR><TT>> I'm pretty sure that
something like an extreme laminality or apicality<BR>> explains the
LaFlesche use of c-cedilla for s, and failing a convenient<BR>>
coresponding voiced symbol he used the same for z, too. He prized
his<BR>> pronunciation of s/z and used symbols to insist on it.
Dorsey mentions<BR>> that members of the LaFlesche family had what
ammounted to a lisp.</TT><BR><BR><TT>Wasn't a mother or grandmother of that
family an Otoe?</TT><BR><BR><TT>Rory</TT></P></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>