Sign Language (was Dances with Wolves)

[Marino]

Willem -

This is certainly my understanding, but I wonder if the "fallacy of the
Nakota Sioux" has become so entrenched that it is accepted even by D and L
speakers. Mary



At 10:50 AM 1/25/2005, you wrote:
>Quoting Marino <mary.marino at usask.ca>:
>
> > At 01:02 PM 1/24/2005, you wrote:
> > >Quoting cstelfer at ucalgary.ca:
> > >
> > >I observed this at the first "No Borders" gathering of all peoples who
> > >self-designate as Nakota, which includes 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.
> >
> > Mary Marino/University of Saskatchewan
>
>I've have always gone with Parks and DeMallie (1992) on that, and referred
>(even in print) anyone who needed to be put on the path of truth to
>them.  They
>do self-designate as Dakota, right?  That is why it is very confusing to
>refer
>to the Yankton/Yanktonai as Nakota or N-dialect.  The only groups who self-
>designate as Nakota (or Nakoda) are the Assiniboines and the Stoneys, right?
>Correct me if I misunderstood.
>
>Willem