[Linda]

George asked me to get this map onto the site.

[George]

Here is the web site I borrowed the language tree from.

http://spot.colorado.edu/~koontz/faq/language.htm#siouan

George

[Charles Orear]

Here is an interesting page that I felt some of you all might enjoy.

Charles

http://www.angelfire.com/az2/catawba/

[techteach]

I have emailed Vivian’s Grandmas Song to another linguistics researcher (The discussion of this began on “The Other Blackfoot”). I will share what I find out. His description of eastern language origins matches the language tree. He has researched both eastern Siouan languages and Algonquian languages.

Cindy

[Linda]

Thanks so much for following up on this. Or I should say, pila huc.

[techteach]

Linda and others:

No luck on the other linguist listening to “Grandma’s song.” He is a linguist with a broader knowledge of eastern native languages than the earlier linquist I communicated with. Here is what he says “The tonality of the song does not sound Iroquoian, Algonquian, Catawban, or Siouan; that does not mean it does not come from one of these groups.” Then he gave me a couple of other names to contact who are in ethnomusicology.

Techteach

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