3 Osage Names

Rankin, Robert L rankin at ku.edu
Fri Dec 7 15:07:36 UTC 2007


> The names were an 1827 German or French effort at their names.

That's useful information since it strongly suggests that the letter "I" was indeed pronounced "ee".  So the first name was probably 'Hawk Woman'.  The spelling info should help people who know much more than I about Osage to I.D. the other two.  
 
Leave it to me to undertake the easiest of three jobs!     :-)
 
Bob



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