Terms for "white man"
Shannon West
shanwest at uvic.ca
Wed Mar 17 07:46:08 UTC 2004
Koontz John E wrote:
>On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Mary Marino wrote:
>
>
>>S^ahiya is current among Canadian Dakota speakers for 'Cree'. I've never
>>recorded S^ahiyena.
>>
>>
>
>Wow! That's fantastic! Previously I'd only seen it mentioned in old
>sources as the Assiniboine name for the "Knisteneaux," and in Hidatsa, for
>example, there is s^ahi' 'Cree'. In Santee and Teton the usual term is
>'Rabbit People.'
>
>
Oh nifty! There's a place in central Saskatchewan called "Kinistino". I never
made the connection before.
And I've seen S^ahiya in my notes from Assiniboine class, but I honestly
don't remember her saying it. I'm sure it referred to the Cree though.
Shannon
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