MASCOUTIN
Michael McCafferty
mmccaffe at indiana.edu
Thu May 26 11:53:22 UTC 2005
Quoting Koontz John E <John.Koontz at colorado.edu>:
>
> 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.
>
>
Exactly, John. Early scholars misidentified the Mascouten and this
misidentification persisted until 1972 when Ives brought out his "Historical
and Philological Evidence Regarding the Identification of the Mascouten
(Ethnohistory 19, no.2 (1972): 123-34).
I have to be somewhere in two minutes, but I'll fill this in later.
Michael
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