Terms for "white man"

[Bruce Ingham]

On 17/3/04 7:31 pm, "Alfred W. Tüting" <ti at fa-kuan.muc.de> wrote:

> That'what I found here:
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> http://www.native-languages.org/cree.htm
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>>> "Cree" comes from the French name for the tribe, "Kristenaux,"
> variously said to be a corruption of the French word for "Christian" or
> an Algonquian word for "first people." When speaking their own language
> the Cree refer to themselves as Ayisiniwok, meaning "true men," or
> Iyiniwok, Eenou, Iynu, or Eeyou, meaning simply "the people" (these
> words have the same Central Algonquian root as the Montagnais word Innu).<<
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> BTW, can anybody tell me why the Cree are called Rabbit People in
> Dakota? (Has it to do with a totem animal?) That's what I found here
> about this name (referring to the Plains Cree):
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> http://www.d.umn.edu/~tbacig/mhcpresent/metisprs.html
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>>> Some major Ojibwe had specific names according to location:
Neayaog (Cree),
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> Maybe the answer can be found here:
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> http://christianmorrisseau.myknet.org/
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The Plains Cree also call themselves Nehiyaw-ak.  Is there any original
meaning fro that word?
Bruce