OSAGE DICTIONARY

[Jimm GoodTracks]

The following reference resource is now available and has been received after a half year or more of delay:
 
"Osage Dictionary," University of Oklahoma Press, Norman. 2009, by late Carolyn Quintero.   The Osage language section contains full entries after the Osage, with sentences providing the contextual use of the word/ term/ prefix ~ suffix.  Notes may follow providing further explanation or discussion of use.  The English section is arranged much like Kenneth Miner's 1984 Winnebago Lexicon [Hochank], however, rather than a number to refer to the Winnebago entry gloss, the Osage dictionary provides an Osage word/ term/ prefix ~ suffix, which in turn the reader is able to locate in the Osage section for a fuller review of the word, its conjugation if it is a verb or use as a prefix ~ suffix.

Carolyn provided a thorough discussion of current Osage orthography and contrasts that with the orthography of the Frances LaFlesche's Osage Dictionary (1932) and that of the unpublished materials and vocabulary slips of James Owen Dorsey [1883].  Also included is a brief grammar sketch, but refers a fuller discussion to her "Osage Grammar," University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 2004.

This dictionary will serve as the most complete and exhaustive resource for the related Dhegiha language branch of the Siouan Languages, and particularly for the Osage Tribal Language Programs.  It has been long awaited.  

In a personal note, the work would have been enhanced had Carolyn and Robert Bristow both lived to see it in print, and available for use by the present generations.

Jimm G. Goodtracks
Báxoje Jiwére Language Program
POBox 122
White Cloud, Kansas 66094
785 595 3335

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