Algonquian ( or ther group?) term for White Buffalo Calf Woman?

[R. Rankin]

I'm afraid I don't know the answer to this particular
question, but the story of trickster catching game
birds (ducks, gees turkeys in different versions) by
having them dance with their eyes closed  is VERY
widespread.  I have several versions of it from Kaw,
Omaha and Dakotan speakers and I heard a Sac and Fox
version last semester.  Is there an Algonquian listserv
out there anywhere?

Bob

----- Original Message -----
From: "phute-khniyanyan" <phute-khniyanyan at cfl.rr.com>
To: <siouan at lists.colorado.edu>
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 6:34 AM
Subject: Algonquian ( or ther group?) term for White
Buffalo Calf Woman?


> The Lakhota have a legend about the coming of the
> White Buffalo Calf Woman, who brings the ceremonial
> pipe to the Lakhotas.  The Lakhota term for this
> person is "Pte Hinchila Ska (or SaN) Win".  My
> question is: Do groups other than Siouan have this
> same or similar legend?  If so, what is this person
> called? I ask this because, years ago in BAE, I came
> across identical stories of the Lakhota trickster
> character "Iktomi", and the strategy he uses to
> capture ducks by having them dance with their eyes
> closed, which was identical to an Algonquian legend
> and their trickster character, even though the
> Algonquian source of the legend was transcribed at a
> time period when the Algonquian source was located
> far to the northeast of the current location of the
> Lakhota.
> Because the Algonquian were widely dispersed, it
> seems that a term for White Buffalo Calf Woman would
> have been existed within this group, too.
>