Another Look at Atakapa

Authors

  • David Vincent Kaufman

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17161/KWPL.1808.15949

Keywords:

Atakapa language-- Discourse analysis, Indians of North America-- United States Louisiana-- Languages, Indians of North America-- United States-- Texas-- Languages, Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958. Dictionary of the Atakapa language.

Abstract

In this paper I re-examine one text, out of a total of nine, first analyzed by John Swanton appearing in the Gatschet and Swanton (1932) Atakapa dictionary. Specifically, I examine the first text to appear in this dictionary, which he titled, The Western Atakapa. However, I believe that Swanton’s title for this story is in error, since the story is actually referring to the Hiyekiti ‘the sunrise people,’ or Eastern Atakapas, not the Western Atakapas

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How to Cite

Kaufman, . D. V. (2015). Another Look at Atakapa. Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 35, 72-78. https://doi.org/10.17161/KWPL.1808.15949