Terms for "white man"
"Alfred W. Tüting"
ti at fa-kuan.muc.de
Tue Mar 16 18:57:25 UTC 2004
>John: Historically s^ahi'yela 'Cheyenne' seems to be 'little Cree', i.e.,
s^ahi'ya (not current in Santee or Teton as far as I know) referred to
the Cree. I suppose one would have to call the longer form unanalyzable
in terms of modern Dakotan.<<
These terms' meaning seem to be a bit vague, as Buechel only gives
_S^ahi'yela_
(without question mark!), as "The Cheyenne Indians", whereas
_S^ahi'ya_
somewhat fuzzy as "a tribe of western Indians".
He also has the term "Rabbit Men" mastincala wicasa [Mas^tiN'c^ala
Wic^ha's^a] as maybe referring to the Cree ("The Cree Indians ???")
Alfred
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