manitous

[David Costa]

Well, there's good reason to believe that the (genetically) closest relative
of Sauk-Fox-Kickapoo is Shawnee, so it might be an inherited innovation
rather than something areal. There appear to be many other little bits of
evocative vocab shared between SFK and Shawnee as well, though the grammars
have many striking differences.

David

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>From: "Rankin, Robert L" <rankin at ku.edu>
>To: "'siouan at lists.colorado.edu '" <siouan at lists.colorado.edu>
>Subject: RE: Osage
>Date: Sat, Jan 19, 2002, 10:48 am
>

> Thanks. I didn't remember the Shawnee part.  And I should acknowledge that
> my original information came from Paul Voorhis.  Interesting that Shawnee
> would be included but not Illinois.
>
> Bob
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Costa
> To: siouan at lists.colorado.edu
> Sent: 1/19/02 12:22 PM
> Subject: Re: Osage
>
> In Sauk-Fox-Kickapoo and Shawnee, to be exact.
>
> David
>
> ----------
>>From: "Rankin, Robert L" <rankin at ku.edu>
>>To: "'siouan at lists.colorado.edu '" <siouan at lists.colorado.edu>
>>Subject: RE: Osage
>>Date: Sat, Jan 19, 2002, 10:22 am
>>
>
>> There are parallels in Algonquian where manitou is 'snake' in some of the
>> languages around Iowa.