Rees

[Wallace Chafe]

For whatever it's worth, when I did a little work with Arikara in 1959 and
1960, people on the Ft. Berthold Reservation always used the name Ree. I
had the impression they didn't even know the name Arikara, or at best it
was a name used by anthropologists. Similarly, they called the Hidatsas
Gros Ventres. Hidatsa was also at best an outsider's term. I don't know
how it is now, but I'm sure Doug Parks does.

Wally Chafe

> There's an abbreviated form (type REE) which is attested first in
> French:
>
> 1797 J. TRUDEAU _Descr. haut Missouri_ in Mississippi Valley Hist.
> Review VIII. (1921) 164
> "Les aricaras, appelés par abrigé les ris"
>
> 1804 (P. Gass) Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. X. (1996) 51
> "we passed a handsome bottom, where a band of Rees lived last winter."
>
> And Wm. Clark has an early example of the full form in [i]:
>
> 1804 3 Aug. in Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. II. (1986) 438
> "the Panies & Recreries Speak the Same language"
>
> 1804 30 Sep. Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. III. (1987) 129
> "he..requested to come on bord and go up to the recorees"
>
> Alan
>