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Dear Bruce, To have drawn a response from a scholar of your stature, I regard as a signal honour.<div>Thank you so much for this, and for all you have done for the furtherance of Lakotanist knowledge.</div><div>I simply could not do without your contributions, and am especially grateful for your English-Lakota dictionary.</div><div>Lila chiyuonihaN,</div><div>Clive Bloomfield.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>P.S. The illustrated 1922 German-language 55-page abridgement of the multivolume Schurhammer biography, of which Wildenhues apparently produced an English version, was entitled </div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>: "Franziskus Xavierus : Ein Leben in Bildern" von G. Schurhammer S.J. und Historienmaler R.E.Kepler. Kunstausgabe mit Kommentar. Xavierus=Verlag/Aachen, und Verlag des </div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Missionhauses Immensee (Schweiz). The 1925 Afraid-Of-Hawk Lakota tr. of Wildenhues, containing abt. 60 pages, used Kepler's illustrations.<br><div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>On 21/01/2008, at 1:06 AM, shokooh Ingham wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Dear Clive,<br>I'm glad that you have found the original (if it can be so called) of this. I bought a copy of the Wthakpeya Thanka a long time ago and read it with enthusiasm, but found some passagess very difficult to work out, particularly the early bits about his early life in the mountains. I must read through it again with your notes to hand.<br>Yours<br>Bruce<br><br><blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div></blockquote><br><div> <br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><hr size="1"> Sent from <a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mailuk/taglines/isp/control/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=51949/*http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/mail/winter07.html">Yahoo!</a> - a smarter inbox.</blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>