[Lexicog] Re: Using moccasin, canoe or other words with other Native etymology

[phil cash cash]

I have to respectfully digress with Scott and Ron here.  It seems  
that there is a general Western conception of dictionary making that  
is becoming more prevalent among native communities and I think this  
model is amendable to the average working linguist or lexicographer.   
Too, as a native linguist, I have seen similar issues in my own  
community where speakers feel and view Eng and its borrowings as  
inadequate vehicles of meaning.  But I am beginning to think that  
this issue may be part of more general intellectual problem.  Native  
communities see the creation of dictionaries (or other similar  
language-based products) as problems of knowledge.  That is, as  
problems of knowledge, they will question the sources from which such  
knowledge should derive.  In doing so, they ensure not so much the  
accuracy of meaning as the proper forms of understanding or cultural  
dispositions which attend to such meanings which are certainly unique  
to their experience as indigenous peoples.

In more practical terms, our community has seen the replacement of  
traditional technologies with modern forms.  So our term is [waliim- 
lapqat] "traditional Nez Perce style [footwear]" where [waliim] is a  
noun prefix meaning 'old-style, traditional'.

Keep up the good work Suzanne!

Phil Cash Cash (Cayuse/Nez Perce)
UofA

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