calumet de paix
Alan Hartley
ahartley at d.umn.edu
Sat Mar 6 01:06:03 UTC 2004
Rory M Larson wrote:
>>>The other two Teton chiefs recognized in the same ceremony were:
>>>
>>>Un-ton gar-Sar bar, Black Buffalow
>>>
>>>Tar-ton-gar-wa-ker, Buffalow medison
>>>
>>>The latter seems good Teton (dropping the r's), but what about the
>>>former? What is "Un-ton gar"?
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>>I don't know. The second part looks like thaNka 'big', of course.
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> Could the "Un" be short for oN'phoN, with a mistranslation of
> "Buffalow" for "Elk"?
That would be uncharacteristically drastic truncation for these journals.
Alan
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