> that "baxoje" was pronounced "paxoji"/"paxoci"/"pakoci" in our family dialect Lance, These are the variants I've found in my OED work, normalized orthographically (by me, a non-Siouanist, so beware!) All but the first are from English-language docs. paxote (French 1673, Fr. 1776) paxoje (1825, 1843) paxoce (1853, 1885) paxoci (1854) pakoTe (1877; T = theta) Alan