Native American welcomes at Olympic opening

Alan H. Hartley ahartley at D.UMN.EDU
Sat Feb 9 13:42:42 UTC 2002


Mike Cleven wrote:
>
> Did any of you who might have watched the ceremonial greeting by native
> chiefs at tonight's opening of the Winter Games happen to understand the
> welcomes in any of the five native languages represented - Shoshone,
> Ute, Paiute, Dineh and - ? Gasho? Didn't get the fifth tribe-name right,
> I think.  I guess I'm wondering how accurate the English paraphrase
> provided by the NBC announcers was.

Gosiute (pron. go-shyoot), a Western Shoshone group.

Alan



More information about the Chinook mailing list