'Hau' / 'How' but not 'Klahowya'

[Nadja Adolf]

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	David Robertson [SMTP:drobert at TINCAN.TINCAN.ORG]
> Sent:	Monday, January 25, 1999 11:11 AM
> To:	CHINOOK at LINGUIST.LDC.UPENN.EDU
> Subject:	'Hau' / 'How' but not 'Klahowya'
>
> While we're really far off-topic here, can I ask why so many Sioux dog
> jokes at powwows?  A little bird told me Chinooks and Lewis and Clark
> ate
> dogs too, as has almost everyone who's domesticated them in the
> history of
> humankind.	WSSSSSSSSS  [You won't believe this, but my cat just
> started mewing and jumped onto the keyboard of the computer.  She
> typed a
> very articulate hiss in capital letters just as I was discussing
> dogs!]
>
> Good day,
> Dave
>
	[Nadja Adolf]  Probably because some of the Northwestern
	tribes that hunted on the plains didn't eat dogs
	and thought the Siouxian people (and Lewis and Clark) barbarians
because
	of the practice. I believe the Nez Perce were most outspoken in
this
	view.

	Which reminds me of a joke my friend Yvonne Marie, a good
Catholic
	Sioux gal, used to tell:

	Recipe for Thanksgiving Day white puppy:

	Choose a cute, cuddly adorable white puppy at the pound.
	Bring it home.
	Invite missionary to Thanksgiving dinner.
	Cuddle the puppy while chopping carrots and potatoes.
	Sautee onions.
	Put carrots in Dutch oven with potatoes and carrots.
	Begin to simmer vegetables.
	Ask missionary to hold puppy while you chop kindling.
	Come into house with hatchet. Ask missionary to hold
	puppy's head on chopping block.

	When missionary leaves, put Turkey in oven, give
	steak to happy puppy.

	Missionary will never try to cadge dinner again. B^)