Virtues-wolves-coyotes

[bi1 at soas.ac.uk]

Alan
I knew it wouldn't be a 'nice' animal.  Thanks for the information

Bruce

 16 Jul 2002, at 12:02, Alan Knutson wrote:
 Just imagine a 50-100kg animal, as fast as a cat but with the
> temper of a cranky badger.
>
> Alan
>
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> Subject: RE: Virtues-wolves-coyotes
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>
> > 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
> > >
> >
> >
> >
>


Dr. Bruce Ingham
Reader in Arabic Linguistic Studies
SOAS