<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div> </div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Hope I have made my perspective & purposes here a little bit clearer now! Next time I contribute, I'll hold back on the autobiographical detail! ;)</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>So, thanks again for giving me a hearing, Jimm Good Tracks - if I could say that in Oto, Ioway, or Missouri, (or Pawnee, or Winnebago), I'd have done so forthwith! ;) </div><div>Maybe someday I will. I have been studying with great interest, the folk tales & letters on that terrific Omaha-Ponca website, and will continue to do so! Maybe that will take me at least one step nearer to your Chiwere branch! </div><div>I was intending to learn enough Biloxi to write to Dave Kaufman : I ordered the Einaudi grammar on Interlibrary loan from Sydney University's Fisher library, but was dismayed to learn that the book had been stolen from the shelf! So we can surmise that there is at least one other dedicated Siouanist (if not Lakotanist) in the Great South Land!</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Best regards,</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Clive Bloomfield.</div><div><div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>On 09/01/2008, at 3:14 PM, Jimm GoodTracks wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div><font size="4"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">I hope members may enjoy the clarity & elegance of that Lakhota as much as I do! </span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">I am conscious of being enthusiastic about it, but needless to say, I am also interested in it in a more analytical & dispassionate way, so I would appreciate any critical observations, or corrections members may care to make.</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "></span></font> </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#800080" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">Clive:</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#800080" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">It may be a bit much to expect your level of appreciation to be wide spread among a group of professional linguists, whose primary focus is on analysis and language dynamics, so you will have to look to the exceptions. I myself do like to the reviews how contemporary literature is expressed in the Lakota language, as I am involved to a much lesser degree how modern literature might be composed in similar languages. Most of the community languages study is directed towards basic communication, with few instances that I have come upon that encourages, even rewards oral or written composition on contemporary subjects. It is left to the imagination, as to how Native languages could blossom if the notion would become widespread. So for my part, you can continue to share your Native prose discoveries.</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#800080" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">Jimm</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#800080" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">PS: Are you aware of what became of Emil AFH and Ann NC, and if they had further opportunities to apply their word craft?</span></font></div></font></div><blockquote dir="ltr" style="padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; margin-right: 0px; "><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; ">----- Original Message -----</div><div style="background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: rgb(228, 228, 228); font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; background-position: initial initial; "><b>From:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a title="cbloom@ozemail.com.au" href="mailto:cbloom@ozemail.com.au">Clive Bloomfield</a></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a title="siouan@lists.colorado.edu" href="mailto:siouan@lists.colorado.edu">SIOUAN LIST LIST</a></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Sunday, January 06, 2008 11:55 PM</div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re : A sampler : "Thoka WaN Itkokip Ohitike KiN He"(Jan 1944)</div><div><font size="4"></font><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Georgia" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Georgia; ">Here is a sampler of what I consider to be the high literary quality of Mr. Emil AFRAID-OF-HAWK's Lakota translations (& of the wonderful human insight & sensitivity of Ann Nolan CLARK.)</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Georgia" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Georgia; ">It is a passage [Pp. 19 to 21] from the above text : Thoka WaN itkokip Ohitike kiN He /"BRAVE AGAINST THE ENEMY" (1944) by Ann Nolan CLARK (1896-1995), which is subtitled in Lakhota :</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Georgia" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Georgia; ">"Wichoichage yamni etaNhaN wichowoyake : H^talehan akhotaNhaN kiN he, na h^talehaN kiN he na hiNhaNna kiN hehaNyaN wichowoyake waN."</font></div><div style="min-height: 15px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Georgia; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Georgia" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Georgia; ">[=A story of three generations : Of the day before yesterday, of yesterday, and of tomorrow.]</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "></span></font> </div></blockquote></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>