Fw: Osage holiday greeting

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From: "Carl Masthay" <carlmasthay at ani-kutani.com>
To: <coa at press.uchicago.edu>; <jjagenbroad at aol.com>; <jahlers at csusm.edu>
Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2005 7:54 PM
Subject: Osage holiday greeting


> To all of you in SSILA:
>
> Back in 1985 Oklahoman Hazel Harper was one of 15 fluent speakers of the 
> Siouan
> language called Osage, but now in 2005 there are only 3 such speakers (if 
> that
> many) with a few others who have some knowledge of their ancestral 
> language
> once spoken in most of Missouri.
> Back in 1985 I made the holidays greeting sheet (see attachment) for 
> relatives,
> friends, co-workers at Mosby (now Elsevier), and unsuspecting 
> acquaintances.
> Each year I would make one with the updated year and say it out loud for 
> each
> new co-worker and some new acquaintances gained over the year, and so some 
> of
> you may already remember it.
> Feel free to print it out to keep because of its rarity. Do you have a 
> color
> printer? The attached is at 185 kilobytes. If you want it higher at 680 kb 
> for
> better clarity, please let me know. You could also forward this to any of 
> your
> friends.
>
>
> Carl
>
> Carl Masthay, 838 Larkin Ave., St. Louis, MO 63141-7758 USA; (314) 
> 432-4231;
> Please use only cmasthay at juno.com to reply.
>
>
>
>
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