Saone with circumflex over the -o-

[Clive Bloomfield]

In BAE-AR (15:205-244) 1893-94, a posthumous paper entitled "Siouan  
Sociology" by James Owen DORSEY(1848-95), he had the following to  
say, in his section on the "gentes" of the Lower Yanktonai, or  
HuNkpatina (Page 218) (in a listing of 7 gens  
names) :                                                                 
                                                                         
                                                                "4,  
SaN-ona (SaN-ona [spelled with Riggsean angma]) Shot-at-some-white- 
object; this name originated FROM KILLING AN ALBINO BUFFALO ; A  
HUNKPAPA CHIEF SAID THAT REFUGEES OR STRANGERS FROM ANOTHER TRIBE  
WERE SO CALLED." (My  
capitals).                                                               
                                                                         
                   Incidentally, Dorsey's paper is preceeded by a  
poignant brief commemorative/biographical note, recording his career  
achievements & early death at age 47, of typhoid fever, in  
Washington, on Feb.4, 1895, penned by one "W.J.M." Could that be  
Washington Matthews (1842-1905) of Hidatsa Grammar & Dictionary fame?  
Regards to all, Clive Bloomfield.