Terms for "white man"?

[Henning Garvin]

Hocank generally refers to whiteman as :

/maaNhi-xete/

or "big knife", literally.  There is another term that is commonly used:

/wareiNnk/

I've been told that this use to refer specifically to Germans, and was in
reference to them always working their farms, and that it translates as
"little worker", but I am not so certain about that one.  There are a number
of other terms for different European nationalities, but I don't have that
material with me right now.




Henning Garvin
Linguistic research
Ho-Chunk Nation Language Division

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