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Heading 1 Ioway-Otoe-Missouria Language Publications Compiled by Jimm G. Good Tracks Introductory Remarks The Ioway-Otoe-Missouria Language (Baxoje-Jiwere-Nyut?aji) is a Siouan Language designated as the Chiwere subgroup of Mississippi Valley Siouan. It is similar in many ways to the Winnebago (Hochangara) subgroup, and usually classified with it as a Chiwere-Winnebago subgroup of Mississippi Valley. The last fluent speakers of Ioway-Otoe-Missouria passed away in the winter of 1996, both in their 90s. There are approximately a half dozen semi-fluent speakers that remain, all born during or prior to WWII. The existing tribal entities are usually called Otoe, or Otoe-Missouria, and Ioway. The Missouria were absorbed by the Otoe in 1850s and ceased to be autonomous. The Otoe-Missouria have their tribal offices at Red Rock, Oklahoma (Noble County). The Iowa of Oklahoma offices are located several miles south of Perkins, Oklahoma (Payne County), while the Iowa of Kansas & Nebraska have their tribal complex several miles west of White Cloud, Kansas (Doniphan County). Whatever dialectal differences existed for the Missouria were for practical purposes lost by the 1900s. Only Ioway and Otoe continue to support dialect-based variation. Mostly these differences are certain phonological oppositions, with only a few vocabulary items being unique to either dialect. All such variation is presently insignificant as far as mutual understanding. Comprehension diminishes between Ioway-Otoe-Missouria and Winnebago. Frequent intermarriage among the Ioway and Otoe communities has effected a dialect mixture in the speech of many households, although each community's dialect tends to persevere in its own setting. Documentation of the language began with missionary efforts in the 1830s, with the resulting publications being the first books printed in present day Kansas. Since this early start there have been few publications of any sort on the Ioway, Otoe, and Missouria or their languages. There are some ethnological studies from the early 1900s, mostly in government and museum series, and a number of manuscript collections remain undeveloped and unpublished. The Compiler's Research This represents the present status of the research and fieldwork of the compiler of this bibliography with the Ioway and Otoe tribal elders in Kansas and Oklahoma during the past thirty two years, undertaken in order to document their native language and its dialects. It covers Ioway-Otoe-Missouria, the original indigenous language in Northeast Kansas and the bordering Nebraska-Missouri region prior to European settlement in the 1850s. The language continued to be spoken prior to WWI in Kansas, and persisted into the 1940s in Oklahoma. During Phase I, data files were made of elder's interviews, traditional songs and hymns, traditional stories and narratives, herbal medications as well as personal cultural knowledge of participation and procurement of ceremonial knowledge and practice. In 1992, Good Tracks completed for publication a first edition lexicon on the Ba'xoje-Jiwe're-Nyut?achi language (see below Essential Materials for Immediate Study) with over 9000 entries. This was published by the Center for the Study of the Native Languages of the Plains and Southwest, Department of Linguistics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO. In Phase II, the data files will be organized and edited for publication, and the bilingual texts prepared for publication. Eventually, the first edition of the lexicon will be expanded into an encyclopedic unabridged dictionary. Essential Materials for Immediate Study Good Tracks, Jimm G. 1992. Iowa-Otoe-Missouria Language Dictionary to English/Baxoje-Jiwere-Nyut?aji -- Ma?uNke. (First Edition). Center for the Study of the Languages of the Plains and Southwest, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 287 pp. A comprehensive glossary-style dictionary providing over 9000 words, phrases and sentences as rendered by elders, who spoke it as their first language. [See the main page for ordering information.]
Heading 2 when I was stationed at fort sill OK. one night were were relaxing at the on post graveyard at the foot of a statue of an Indian Princess and other royalty buried there, the night seemed very still and quiet we were smoking Tobacco as well as the weed green, I decided to blow some smoke rings which were going east toward the graves of White Army personnel as well as to the North I watched the rings travel great distances and remain in fullness along the path of the headstones then they would hit a tombstone and fade away, very spooky yet I knew that I was with family... No mistake that I was stationed at Ft. Sill Oklahoma then as I waited for a security clearence for many months I was assigned to the 2nd Infantry Division Indian Head Cheif with full headress in center of a 5 pointed star inside a SHIELD...Then to 1/9th Infantry which was a Unit from the beginning of the U.S. ARMY. I have seen the Ghosts of Calvary men crossing certain paths on the Camp GREAVES...CSC Company 1/9th Infantry 2ID 8th Army. Pacific. SIGNAL CORPS. FADAC Artillery Computer...TELETYPE.....CODE....ENCRYPTION ....CRYPTO....Intercom....Telephone.....Demolition.....Radar Chronograph.......Infra red...... mock battle systems....RTTY...AM FM Punched card operations.....Paper tape.....programming......LIGHT Reader ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,LIGHT READER,,,,,,,,the holes are the program so light passes to the sensor....the darkness or covered field of Black paper tape reports its message as well. 1 0 or + - on off in out this is the foundation of THE CODE WE NEED TO DE CIPHER SAYTONE from his NOTES.
Roy Chastain and the Birthday party flood gumdrops the clown pickup get some rope car floating in water magic show present BROKEN BRIDGE...CHASTE AIM.....1969.....2nd grade elementary school Mrs. Robles...3rd Mrs. Francis......4th Miss SKODA SCode.....5th Mr. Greenwald....6th Mr. miller....Principal...Mr. Gillette.....Nurse....quarter and a dime hot lunch....1968 7yrs plus 35 =42 year 2003 QUOTE FROM "THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN:" "In life and manners the Oto compare closely with the other tribes of the western prairies, with all of whom the buffalo was the determining factor. Material existence was regulated by the buffalo, and as they lived so they worshiped." "The Oto have several societies for both men and women. Of these but two are of first importance: "Che" or "Aluqa" (Buffalo) and "Dostanye" or "Mankanys" (Otter). These two societies are of such importance that they should rightly be considered as part of the political organization. The main object of each society is to promote men of worth." [Image] [Image] The above gravures are STANDING ON THE EARTH and WHITE ELK-OTO "The naming of children is attended with considerable form and ceremony. The child is usually named within four days after birth. A lodge is erected and a naming ceremony conducted, in which the immediate family and other relatives participate. Some one of the old men of the tribe give the family four names from which to select. It may be a family name, or the name of a plant or an animal, but it must have some association with the clan in which the child is born... Following the family ceremony, others are invited, a feast is held, and gifts are offered. The old man who who has given the name in behalf of the parents of the child is so highly esteemed that he is made the recipient of many gifts. He offers long prayers to the spirits, and afterwards forecasts the child's future. After singing songs of a sacred nature which contain words used in his prophesy, he relates the story of the name. Gifts are exchanged, and food which is considered sacramental is eaten. A name may be changed later in life... It is also customary for a man to adopt a new name after the performance of some noteworthy deed, or by fasting and dreaming, when he assumes the name of whatever appeared or was suggested by a dream."