Re Goodtracks' WaT'ota: *Wathiota? Then with Ass. ti'oda (town), Lak. othiwota-'abandoned campsite'(*o+thi+ota, acc. to Deloria (loc.-nominalizer + dwell+ many, a lot). Thi is pan-Siouan, ota is attested in Quapaw zhanotta, forest (tree+a l…
I have always been fascinated by language. As I have a working knowledge of Dakota language, I too can put words together as did James W. Lynd. Today we look back at the Pond Brothers and their alphabet which put the Dakota language out ahe…
Just want to remark that I'm really enjoying reading through your work, your 'Erie' speculations were especially entertaining. Hope to see you continue your map-making and writing in the new year. A blog, partly about my project to make a m…
The Jesuit orthography definitely contains Greek influence: /th/ was written with θeta, /kh/ with χi, and /h/ was sometimes written with a raised apostrophe-thing probably based on the spiritus asper....and while spelling [u] ou is French a…
I've been reading the gems that are your posts (seriously, they're so interesting and filled with information) these past couple of days, and was wondering what happened to part 3b and 4 of the Chesapeake Bay mapping project? I really want
Funny meme and all, but it does seem to come from a bit of an... uhh... passerby perspective? The Byzantine-Sassanian war isn't that obscure—I had heard of it, at least, despite never being particularly interested in the Byzantines or the S…
This is very well researched and I want to thank you for all your work! Just curious....Who are you?! A blog, partly about my project to make a more accurate historical map of North America, and also about the North American frontier in gen…
You've done your homework on these maps, but since you contacted Ives Goddard, I'm surprised that he didn't send you to me or give you the most recent map that I made for the Handbook of North American Indians on the Chesapeake area. Contac…
There's probably no connection whatever and I'm likely just suffering from a bout of parralelmania, but I'm surprised in your brief mammoth discussion you didn't bring up Big Bone Lick, given this was right in the neighborhood of the Mosope…
What an excellent well researched, interesting and well referenced blog post. Thank you very much.With regard to rawhide/leather. I think the confusion lies in people using "rawhide" as a synonym for buckskin. Buckskin is a type of leather.…