Emil Afraid-Of-Hawk's style (A Personal Impression)

[Clive Bloomfield]

Hello Willem, It seems also that "Watakpeya Tanka", (subtitled :  
"Toni kin itowapi kicunyan oyake kin he."), a life of St. Francis  
Xavier penned by Fr. George M. Schurhammer SJ, published originally  
in 1925, was in fact translated into Lakota by Mr. EMIL AFRAID-OF- 
HAWK, no less!  Apparently the work was republished in 1996, and  
appears in the Bibliography of "Lakota", by Bruce Ingham, Lincom  
Europa, 2003. Schurhammer, one reads, was a German Jesuit orientalist  
historian born near Freiburg, Germany in 1882, who apparently spent  
the years 1908 to 1912 in South India (Malabar Coast), and became an  
authority on the great Missionary-Saint of the ("Far")-East. One's  
impression is that he spent the rest of his life in the Vatican,  
apart from trips to Goa, and Japan in the early '50's. (For us down  
here of course, it is the "Near North"!). Toksha akhe,  
Clive.                                                                   
                                                     P.S. I'm not  
sure of the exact sense of "kicunyan" in that subtitle above . I took  
it to mean :  "(The Great Attack) :The narrative[.lit.'he tells/ 
reports'-presumably, nominalized] of his life (....[clothing it in?])  
pictures." Buechel-Manhart is not a huge help, merely listing  
"kic'úNyaN" (adverb) = "in a clothed manner.", under the well-known  
verb : "kic'úN/wéc'uN", meaning "to put on/wear (clothes, etc.)" B-M.  
also renders the phrase "tancan kic'unyan" [="a body dressed"]. Any  
elucidation for amateurs gratefully received!
On 07/07/2006, at 1:26 PM, rwd0002 at unt.edu wrote:

> Quoting "A.W. Tüting" <ti at fa-kuan.muc.de>:
>
>> Clive,
>>
>> with regard to those copies pointed to by you, not mentioning Mr.  
>> Emil  Afraid-Of-Hawk seems to be  no wonder, since the booklets  
>> are in  English only, aren't they?
>
> Actually, no, the original editions are bilingual English-Lakota.   
> I do own a copy of a monolingual English "Brave Against the Enemy",  
> but I have seen the original edition, which is bilingual, and its  
> Lakota text looks impressive.
>
> Willem