Terms for "white man"?
Henning Garvin
hhgarvin at hotmail.com
Wed Mar 10 04:21:11 UTC 2004
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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