Michigamea (Re: (O)maha)

[Koontz John E]

On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Michael Mccafferty wrote:
> I think I remember that the Illinois-French dictionary commonly attributed
> to Jacques Gravier has a few *Illinois* language dialect terms associated
> by the compiler(s) of that dictionary with the Metchigamea, as, at some
> point, they or some of them, became Illinois speakers. That doesn't help,
> of course, the putative Siouan origin for their ancestral tongue.

In other words, as I think I established some time back with David Costa,
all these terms are clearly MI or at least Algonquian?

I also remember looking at a handwritten list of personal names without
being able to make heads, tails, or Siouan of it.

JEK