MASCOUTIN

[Jimm GoodTracks]

Thanks, Dave, for clearifying a long standing confusion.
Have a great Mem Day weekend.
Jimm

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Costa" <pankihtamwa at earthlink.net>
To: <siouan at lists.colorado.edu>; <siouan at lists.colorado.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 2:17 PM
Subject: Re: MASCOUTIN


> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>