Dhegihanists: Ethnonyms for SE tribes?

[Anthony Grant]

Folks:

Could Quapaw /hi$a/ have something to do with the little-known Caddoan tribe
whose name is usually spelt Eyeish?  One Caddo clan was supposedly of Quapaw
origin and was called Imaha - a clearly Dhegiha name!.  (There was also a
Caddo clan of Choctaw origin, named 'Yowani', according to Alice Fletcher.)

Anthony
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From: R. Rankin <rankin at ku.edu>
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Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 4:36 PM
Subject: Dhegihanists: Ethnonyms for SE tribes?


> Awhile back I was asked to provide Dhegiha names for
> the various tribes of the aboriginal Southeast.  I
> found several in my Kansa and Quapaw notes, but I
> wonder if any of you have more from Osage, Omaha or
> Ponca?  These would include names for the Cherokee,
> Creek (Muskogee), Choctaw, Chickasaw, Shawnee and
> presumably Caddo, plus a variety of others if they can
> be discovered.
>
> UPPER CASE vowels are accented.  What I found so far:
>
> Quapaw /$adAkke/ is 'Cherokee'.
> Quapaw /$awaNnaN/ is 'Shawnee'.
>
> Kansa /$ayAkki/ is 'Cherokee' in Dorsey's notes, but by
> the 1970's Mrs. Rowe gave a more modern /ccelEkki/.
> Note that Quapaw /d/ and Kansa /y/ normally correspond
> in cognate vocabulary.
> Kansa /moN$kOge/ is 'Creek, Muskogee'.  It's
> interesting since the Kansa speakers borrowed the name
> (from Creeks or perhaps others) with /$/ rather than
> /s/.  This probably reflects the fact that, in Creek,
> the sibilant is most often retroflexed next to back
> vowels, and this was apparently perceived as the
> alveopalatal rather than the dental or alveolar.
> Kansa /ccIkkasa/ and /ccattA/ are 'Chickasaw' and
> 'Choctaw' respectively -- both from Dorsey.
> Kansa /hi$A/ is 'Caddo'.  I don't have any etymology
> for this.  It's from Dorsey.
> Kansa /$Awane/ is 'Shawnee' for Dorsey, but again Mrs.
> Rowe gave the modern /$oNnI/.
>
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