MASCOUTIN
Koontz John E
John.Koontz at colorado.edu
Thu May 26 02:10:42 UTC 2005
On Wed, 25 May 2005, David Costa wrote:
> 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.
Isn't there a long history of confusion on this score connected with
alternate etymologies of Mascoutin, "People of the Fire/Prarie" and
application of one of these names (the latter?) to the Potawatomi? I
remember the ingredients, as it were, but not the details.
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