Kansas

[Beverly Flanigan]

Thank you!

At 01:31 PM 2/11/2003 -0800, you wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Beverly Flanigan" <flanigan at OHIOU.EDU>
> > Since "Sioux" is not a language, I assume this is from one of the
> languages in the Siouan family--that spoken by the Quapaw, as in
> Arkansas?  In other words, were the Quapaw (a tribe I'm not familiar
> with) in the Kansas
>territory too?
>
>Yes, the southern plains area includes Siouan-Dhegiha speakers such as
>Kansa, Iowa, Omaha, Osage, Ponca and Quapaw, and were sometimes referred
>to as the "Southern Sioux", but only because of the linguistic similarities.
>
>From: 7th Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, 1885-1886, 1891
>printing...
>Kaw is equivalent to Kansa
>Quapaw is equivalent to Ukaqpa is equivalent to Kwapa who where the
>Arkansa earlier.
>
>HTH,
>Bruce