<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Bob,</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">From JOD reel 2 frame 83 </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">zha </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">a genus including all yellow flowering
plants as the artichokes & sunflowers, etc</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">2.84</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">zhaxthazi</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">The yellow flowers of the different
species of the "zha" genus, including the sunflowers (Om.Soc.283).</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Not the regular sunflower of the prairie,
but a shorter plant which matures in September (George Miller)</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Om.Soc.283</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">...The time for the return [from the
te une buffalo hunt] was when the wind blew open the "jaqcashi,"
the sunflowers and the flowers of other species of the "ja,"
which was about the first of September.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">From Gilmore's Uses of Plants... p.
78</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Helianthus annus L. Sunflower</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">zhazi (Omaha-Ponca) "yellow wee"</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Gilmore includes the Dakdota and Pawnee
terms which I will not try to render in email script.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Uthighide</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Mark Awakuni-Swetland, Ph.D.<br>
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