National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1873-08-29

Winnebago Reservation ut Long Prairie In
Minnesota, obtained from the chief Pdh-
sah-rdytch-kah, literally Long Nose, but COM
subject, which further inquiry induced me to
believe wcro correctly those Of the intelli-
gent people OF the tribe. lie said the name
was derived from 'ho,n voice or speech,
'tchdn-ncc-ndh," primitive or first, with
'kah-rdh,n or ''df-rdh," added, II being the
common termination Of nouns; and be averred
that tho. name by which the WInncbsgocs
designated themselves meant People Of the
Original or Primitive Language" H
Ny own impression Is, after somo patient
Investigation, that, under that law OF word
formation, (stylcd by Duponccau the poly
| synthetic by which tho various words origi-
nally required and used TO express q certain
Idea became each In process OF time clipped
Of some particle, either prefix or sufiix, tho
whole being condemned or rammcd together,
or "tclescoped" into each other 30 TO speak,
20 as TO cmbody the Idea In one word only,
that the word tcdnk Or ,cang, slgulfying man
tribal name, and 10 yet part Of It, with the 20
dropped, the original form Of the whole name
having. been probably "Ho-tchan-wang-
ahrah, the n at the end Of tho syllable
"tchan" being nasal i,IulL ~. y.
This claim 70 be tho Tribc Of the Original
Speech IL not intended, probably, TO cover
more than dozen or 30 tribes whose Ian.
lguages plsinly show, In the strong afilnities Of
their radicals, derivation from an immediate
common stock. The claim appears to be so
far well founded that we know the Otocs,
Omahaws, IowAys and Missourics, speaking
dialects strongly cognatc with each other and
, with the 'Winncbagoos, call the latter their
''cider brothers,. and there Is some ground
70 include all the old Arkansaw tribes Of
(which tho Quappaws are the remnant, and
tho Osages, Kanzas or Kaws, Mandans,
Arickarecs and Minetarees, In the same cato
gory-that IL 70 say, In the Class Of WINNIE
nAeo-sioUx, In coutradistlnctiout 10 the Glass
d DAKATA.SIoux, which last embraces the
Seven Council Fires Of the Dakotas proper
and on, more tribe only besides, viz; their
reyolted relatives, the Hohays- Assineboines,
e they ase styled BY the acknowledgements
Glass OF Tribes. ~" -
Another name for the tribe, which obtained
10 tho earliest time, exclusively but univer-
sally among The French, Is that OF Pudns, or
IA Pudrs," translated 1.-THE Stinkdrds."
This not very odorous name was evidently,
| 10 the first Instance, o INSTRUMENTATION of the
Ojibway.Ag term for thsm Of Reen-
sepeek-o, the People ofthc Dirty or Foul
| 0TSc ssrumeni sus tanning thls view Ia easy,
and runs In this wisc,. 1pe first publication
| Of this French name for them was 10 1859,
| on Champlainis map OF Canada and water
th6iy known ord heard IL. Vhis was
published yearl before any vAits ,g!qn had
clsited dem, and before was possible for Il
lCharleyour,) from Its being descriptive Of
the nlthiness and VIE smells observed around
their fishing villages when the French hrst
become personally acquainted with them.
| Green Bay on the map d called the LAC des
Puons, which, on subsequent carly maps,
river discharging into II Is styled "Rioiers
des Puans, aEd tho present Lake Winnebago
u set down as Lac des Puns." ~ that
early period, prior to the year 1852, neither
the Tropeh nor any other white people had
pushed their actual explorations Of tho upper
lake system beyond the point, where Cham
plain had winiersd on Lake Huron, where
Huron Indians had carried him after he had
been wounded IN his puixotic alliance with
them TO repel the assaults OF the Iroquols
upon them. There, undoubtedly, he obtained
4 from the Indians those birch-bark traclngs Of
the land and water CONGREGATIONS Of the yet
unyisitcd upper regions which We find repre-
but ssfSsIentiy faithful 70 geographical lac,
70 cpable) Va 10 Identity the laid and water
marks, especially whom the names attached
help to guide the traveller or the Investigator
n. correct hentjaeauons. For example, on
thlsyery map OF Champlain, "Lac DIES Puans"
u located north Of tho Straits Of Mackinaw,
lis projection, bay-likc, into tho land and It's
Communication with a greater body Of water
arc oil so nearly correctly limned that Its
icing intended Tor our Green Bay could not
10 mistaken, even II the odious name In
scribed on Il did not make the purpose GER
taipty.. The error In the position Of the Bay,
north instead OF south, il Is not hard to un-
derstand, and might easily DO made In trans
ferring the birch.bark tracings to paper un.
less the points OF tho compass wcro also dis.
tlnctly Indicated upon the birch-bark section
copied from, and Ii IL not likely they were,
! and II not, simply by the copyist reversing
, the north and south In holding the map would
produce the error. -
SO, In regard to the mistranslation into
French Of the Indian name Of Ween-neepeck,
, which doubtless accompanied or was marked
on the birch-bark map Of the bay or ''lac, y
, we can comprehend the process OF miscon-
cepti0n under which that errbr occurred.
take II to be probable that the materials
! not put together and reduced to a scale BY
himself, but by clerks or engineers or other
, In the French employ.
! can conceive that the translation Of
, Ween-neepesk was made by some French
I man imporfectly acquainted, (as almost oil Of
|, them were.) with the Ojibway Algonquin
languages aud idioms: by one who was inca
. pable OF that severe analysis by which alont
. the polyaynthetlo roots OF an Indian word
! can DO extracted froia the much-conpoundet
! | mass forming such one word; and deem I
! probable that the leading idea conveyed b,
iho first syllable, ueen, an idea Of fouliess q
ill-smells iirst fastened itself in his mind; was
: indeed, ali that his scanty pathological Ca
!, pacity enabled him to eliminate from mi
|. COMPOUNDED new name Of 4 foreign lanpuav,
!, offered for his Immediate elucidalion withou
: the explanatory HELM a knowledge Of loca
!. grop raphicsi peculiaIitia. ,oniI 4. Va s,orde
|. him - - -, "o''unA' Ah''u''
Ina ,o.,ao ,,o o,,,,a.,,,, ~ IN ,o-, mn =
,,cnisr sS"%, NJ ,a,sar Saas' nldltyk f nn
! eunts ,,uS " wv MaSoS ~ ,Pp soaIIf TX. y
cv NV ..,,v Fnno sS s,a siSsS ' srayoa
!. tvIny ,hs ' Indisn nsSnss ,Ssv MAJ Nv imner
= III. ~ ridtcnions ,ran.iaiiors 81 Them IN
J shich .onoe is,,cha ana ana cnrions eyamnSe
nigh. ~ saanced \ y, NV sivir% .rhitfa,
= na,nas ~ ,n.,r oan hs.sa ,snon so,na ',oc,;
l. I. T.. tnsh Smn Sasoe spsa s1n1 49,
+ nhrity IN the hnDits OF triDe or the dress Q
n their hair, Gas per Hurons,) or the place Q
d residence. .-,.
" In thls case. loweyer. Of formulating ia
J, C,IamnIain's 8rst man N The unrey lates IN
n.ma 1Ips.,.,,..,sai. :" ha IT,, 7 ,,,n T.,
o % WeoPteN, ", 49, snn
n ighoranco mao more 10 90 WIN u ana carr
e lesaness than designed perversion. Once th
erroneous f1tid translation became placed o
public record, and that too on the fir,
" man ever made az the unper lake region
70 the dsv. when mana ~ thosa ,siidsrnsss,