Fw: Quintero's Osage dictionary

Sun Apr 4 19:28:40 UTC 2010

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From: carlmasthay at ani-kutani.com
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  3 April 2010

  A few days ago I received my copy of the late Carolyn Quintero’s 56+328-page Osage Dictionary, $55 from the University of Oklahoma Press, published on 15 March 2010, after a long delay. This book is Osage and not La Flesche’s 1932 Osage Dictionary, which contains many Omaha words mixed in. Over two days I quickly read the introductory material with its short verb sketch and checked a bunch of entries. Back in 1985 I talked with Hazel Harper and gleaned the way to say “Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year” in Osage (see below). Back then there were 15 principal speakers; today there are none—just secondary speakers and those students in classes learning Osage—Carolyn Quintero at 62 died in June 2008. Carolyn F. Quintero was the president of Inter Lingua, Inc., in Tulsa and a research associate in Native American languages at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History at the University of Oklahoma.

  I also appreciate the funds that Nancy Pillsbury Shirley, whom I know in St. Louis, bestowed on the Osages to have this book published. The black jacket with both humble black and flashy colorful design is superb. The grammar sketch takes one thru the modifications that pronominal prefixes take on verbs. And there are many pictures of the speaker contributors.

  The Osage language was once spoken over much of southern Missouri for centuries, especially along the Osage River, and as Dhegiha (‘on this side’) Siouan language it has been pegged in its ancestral form as a primary language probably spoken at the Cahokia Mounds over a thousand years ago. After being forced onto a reservation, the Osages were oblidged by the government to purchase land from the Cherokees in Indian Territory, they resettled in northeastern Oklahoma in the later part of the nineteenth century. Today the Osage tribe numbers about 18,000.

  If you want Quintero’s 2004 Osage Grammar, plan on spending at least $90 or up to $130 thru the Internet!  It is cheaper from OU Press. See below.

  Carl Masthay, St. Louis

  Osage dictionary / Author: Carolyn Quintero, 2010.

  LC Call No.:   PM2081.Z5Q85 2010, Dewey No.:     497/.5254321 22

  ISBN: 978-0-8061-3844-2 (alk. paper), hardcover 480 pages 7" x 10", 11 B&W Illus.
  University of Oklahoma Press, 2800 Venture Drive, Norman, OK 73069-8216,   1-800-627-7377, 405-325-2000 (local and international calls), http://www.oupress.com/

  $55.00, 1-800-627-7377; 10% online discount $49.50

  Osage grammar / Author: Carolyn Quintero, 2004.

  LC Call No.:   PM2081.Q85 2004

  University of Nebraska Press, 1111 Lincoln Mall, Lincoln, NE 68588-0630. 1-402-472-3581. pressmail at unl.edu

  $86.22 + $3.99  to  $132.21  http://www.abebooks.com/

  Osage Christmas greetings (Internet Siouan  font) –

  WahkóNta izhíNke iitáe ’ékitxaN. ÓweenaNpi.

  (‘God son  he.was.birthed  it.is.time.again  we.are.grateful.’:

  ‘It is time again to celebrate Jesus’s birthday.’)

  OmáiNhka htséka okáshe dhiNké ni-pi-hkóNbra

  (standard: dhi-pi-hkóNbra).

  (‘year new troubles none plural-you  I.want’: ‘I want you to be in peace in the new year.’) 

  e as in let; N = nasalized vowel

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