Fwd: Saone with circumflex over the -o-

[Clive Bloomfield]

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> From: Clive Bloomfield <cbloom at ozemail.com.au>
> Date: 14 July 2006 7:29:02 AM
> To: siouan at lists.Colorado.EDU
> Subject: Re: Saone with circumflex over the -o-
>
> 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).                                                             
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>                      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.

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