Virtues-wolves-coyotes

[bi1 at soas.ac.uk]

Interesting.  Is the 'metal' term a 'maza' cognate?  Whereabouts is
the Avonlea culture?
Bruce
On 16 Jul 2002, at 10:24, Koontz John E wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Jul 2002 bi1 at soas.ac.uk wrote:
> > I do agree that a connection with Navaho or Apache seems unlikely in
> > terms of the movement of these groups and the geography involved.
>
> Actually, it would depend on when you assumed the contact.  The Apache, or
> some of them, were on the western Plains into the 1700s.  The Spanish
> encountered the Apache on the Plains north and east of the Pueblos.  The
> Plains Apache never left the Plains, of course.  The usual ethnographic
> assessment is that the Apache were pushed into the Southwest by the
> Comanche entering the Plains and moving south the get better access to
> Spanish horses.  Archaeologists are still arguing as to what portion of
> the southern Athabascans came south by way of the Plains and the Basin.
> The Navajo are usually said to have used the Basin route.
>
> The northern Plains Avonlea culture is sometimes considered to be early
> Athbascan, and it has at least one offshoot in north central Minnesota
> sometime around 1000 AD or so - I'm not sure I remember the date properly.
> There is another possible lexical sharings between Athabascan and Siouan,
> the 'metal' term.
>
> JEK
>