<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">In my Anthropology of the Great Plains
class I have always described the "Russified" Volga Germans as
being either Protestants or Catholics, reflecting the division of their
original closed corporate mother colonies on either side of the Volga River...
and subsequent sorting out by faith into either Kansas or Nebraska.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Mark Awakuni-Swetland<br>
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"Ttenixa uxpathe egoN" a biama, winisi akHa.</font>
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<br><font size=1 face="sans-serif">Sent by: owner-siouan@lists.colorado.edu</font>
<p><font size=1 face="sans-serif">04/29/2008 10:11 AM</font>
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<br><tt><font size=2>Quoting "Rankin, Robert L" <rankin@ku.edu>:<br>
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> Willem,<br>
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> I'm afraid I can't remember WHY I have always assumed she was Jewish.
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> I either heard or read it somewhere I considered authoritative,
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> think. The assumption is backed up by the people in Oklahoma
among <br>
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Thanks Bob. Since the Ponca people say that she was Jewish from <br>
Germany, that was the correct assumption. Probably not the same person
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as the Nebraskan Frida Hahn from Russia who might have been Volga <br>
Germans and therefore not Jewish? Just guessing...<br>
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