MASCOUTIN

[David Costa]

No -- the Mascoutin (AKA Mascouten) were a tribe who almost certainly spoke
a subdialect of the Sauk/Fox/Kickapoo language. They lost their identity as
a separate tribe when they merged with the Kickapoo in the early 19th
century.

No definite sample of the Mascouten language is known, but there are several
statements in the Jesuit Relations that they spoke the same language as the
Sauk/Fox/Kickapoo.

A recently-discovered 1792 vocabulary by John Heckewelder looks a lot like
Sauk, Fox, and Kickapoo, but doesn't quite match any of them. Ives has
theorized that it might actually be Mascouten. His article on this is in the
Proceedings of the Algonquian Conference, volume 34.

best,
David


> The term -- MASCOUTIN -- is seen in documents.  Is this term an older name
> for the Potawatomi?
> There is a small town by this name here in Kansas just west of the
> Potawatomi Rez and southwest of the Kickapoo Rez
> I've seen this term often, but there is no tribal community that is attached
> to the term that I am familiar with.
> Jimm
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