MANDAN redux

[Alan H. Hartley]

"Alan H. Hartley" wrote, 9 Sep. 1999:

> De la Vérendrye, in his journal for 1738 (ibid. 297-8) says:
>
> "pour venir avec moy dans l'automne à la Descouverte des mantannes que
> si deuant on apeloit ouachipouanne selon les monsony"
>
> The name may be Cree waciypwa:n, lit. 'mountain Sioux' (where
> pwa:n is the same element as in "Assiniboine").

I stand corrected by HNAI XIII.364 which makes it Ojibway wa:Si-pwa:n
'cave Sioux' [more accurately, perhaps, 'den Sioux' AH], with ref. to
the Mandans' earth-lodges.

Alan