Similarly in the plains area, the Lakota/Dakota/Nakota people don't like to be referred to as Sioux (the Cheyenne? word for "snake"). Incidentally, Lakota/Dakota/Nakota means "the people" as well. If I remember right, the Lakota were from the Montana area, Dakota the Dakotas (!) and Nakota from what would become Minnesota. IMO it's lots less offensive to to call someone Lakota when they're Dakota then to call them a snake! Shawn Jim Meldrum wrote: >Actually the term is Inuit (meaning the people). Canadian Inuit are >offended when you use the word Eskimo for their people. (Eskimo >roughly translated means raw meat eaters). 0 ____©/______ ~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^\ ,/ /~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^ 0 *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Fri Jun 25 1999 - 09:45:54 PDT
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