Dakota Dialects (was RE: Sign Language (was Dances with Wolves))

[Alan H. Hartley]

Koontz John E wrote:
>>>I observed this at the first "No Borders" gathering of all peoples who
>>>self-designate as Nakota, which incluldes Assiniboine, Stoney, (and
>>>Yanktonai, although there were only two or three of them there).
>>
>>Do the Yanktonai self-designate as Nakota?   Parks and DeMallie say they do
>>not, in their 1992 article in Anthropological Linguistics, on the basis of
>>data gathered during the Sioux Dialect Survey.
>
>
> I wondered about that myself.  I don't recall what Parks & DeMallie said
> about self-identification

"the Yanktons and Yanktonais are the least well known of the Sioux
groups. When their speech was recorded in the nineteenth century, they
called themselves dak'ota..; there is no evidence that they ever called
themselves nak'ota." (Anthropol. Ling. 34.242)

Alan