Fw: Waist deep in sexist racism

[Jimm GoodTracks]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Caron" <mcaron at sunflower.com>
To: "Rankin, Robert L" <rankin at ku.edu>; "Justin McBride" 
<jmcbride at kawnation.com>
Cc: "Kindscher, Kelly" <kindsche at ku.edu>; "Jimm GoodTracks" 
<jgoodtracks at gmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 26, 2009 12:20 PM
Subject: Re: Waist deep in sexist racism


>I found this reference on line, but can't get to the library to check it 
>out right now (I'm home in bed with a bad back).
> "Origin of the Name Wichita" Zoe A. Tilghman American Anthropologist, New 
> Series, Vol. 43, No. 3, Part 1 (Jul. - Sep., 1941), pp. 488-489
> Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/663168
> Mike
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Rankin, Robert L" <rankin at ku.edu>
> To: "Mike Caron" <mcaron at sunflower.com>; "Justin McBride" 
> <jmcbride at kawnation.com>; "Jimm GoodTracks" <goodtracks at peoplepc.com>
> Cc: "Kindscher, Kelly" <kindsche at ku.edu>
> Sent: Sunday, July 26, 2009 9:23 AM
> Subject: RE: Waist deep in sexist racism
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>>A friend of mine at CU works with the Wichita tribe on their language 
>>program.  I'll see what I can find out.
>>
>> Bob
>>
>> ________________________________
>>
>> From: Mike Caron [mailto:mcaron at sunflower.com]
>> Sent: Sat 7/25/2009 12:13 PM
>> To: Rankin, Robert L; Justin McBride; Jimm GoodTracks
>> Cc: Kindscher, Kelly
>> Subject: Waist deep in sexist racism
>>
>>
>> Apparently the waist/crotch/ass deep nonsense has drifted from Wakarusa 
>> all the way south to Wichita! I stumbled across the following entry in a 
>> book that was donated to the Douglas County Correctional Facility library 
>> recently:
>>
>> Wichita.        The Wichita Indians, and thus Wichita, Kansas,
>> which is named for the tribe, may take its name from the
>> tribe's word wichita (waist deep). One old story, which I can't
>> verify, says that these Indians pushed their squaws out into
>> rivers to see how deep they were. if a place was safe for crossing,
>> the squaws would cry out "wichita" to the relatively timid
>> braves on shore, who proceeded to ford the river. If they sank,
>> presumably, the river wasn't safe to cross.
>>
>> Robert Hendrickson, QPB ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WORD AND PHRASE ORIGINS. Facts On 
>> File, (Quality Paperback Books) second edition (1998?), p. 775.
>>
>> I wonder where Hendrickson got his "facts" on file.
>> Mike
>>
>>
>>
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