'All' and C + dh Clusters (RE: Osage 'eight')

[Koontz John E]

On Sun, 27 Aug 2006, Mark J Awakuni-Swetland wrote:
> ZhiNtheho John, ShoNgeska is identified as Ellis Blackbird, ... He is
> pictured in F&LaF The Omaha Tribe pp. 171-175. They report that the
> MoNthiNkagaxe (Earth Makers) did not have subclans, but had "groups"
> associated with certain rites. One was the "wolf" or mikasi group.

KHagesoNga, thanks for sorting that out!  The Wolf Clan reference left me
feeling a bit puzzled.  I knew it had to be a conventional English
equivalent of one of the Omaha terms.  These equivalents are perhaps one
of the undocumented parts of Omaha culture.  The ethnographers tended to
be purists, and didn't elaborate on the English handling of things, though
here we see that Dorsey knew about them, which is interesting.

It occurs to me that somebody should write something up on this
English/translational nomenclature, before it gets lost, too.  For
example, there's a certain scheme for talking about kin in English, and
for addressing them, though I have to confess that I fairly ignorant of
it.

And then, as I think we noticed a long time ago, when we were talking
about street signs and such in Macy, a lot of places have distinctly Omaha
names - in English!