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DHEGIHA DICTIONARIES 



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The meaning is lost, although Dorsey 

 translates it 'bird.' 



Patada.— Dorsev in 3 1 Rep. B. A. E., 219, 18Sr>; 

 15th Rep. B. A. E., 226, 1897. la'-ta-da.— Morgan, 

 Anc. Soc, 155,1877. 



Dhegiha ( ' on this side. ' — Fletcher ) . A 

 term employed by J. 0. Dorsey to distin- 

 guish a group of the Siouan family com- 

 prising the Omaha, Ponca, Osage, Kansa, 

 and Quapaw tribes. Dorsey arranged the 

 group in two subdivisions: the Quapaw 

 or Lower Dhegiha, consisting of the Qua- 

 paw only; and the Omaha, or Upper 

 Dhegiha, including with the Omaha, the 

 Osage, Kansa, and Ponca. See Chiwere. 

 Pegiha.— Dorsey in 3d Rep. B. A. E., 211, 1885 

 (Ponca and Omaha name for themselves). 

 J!33taha.— Dorsey, Osage MS., B. A. E., 1883 (name 

 of Osage for themselves). D(ie-tu'. — Dorsev, 

 Kwapa MS. vocab., B. A. E., 1891 (used by the Qua- 

 paw in speaking of themselves). Dhegiha. — Dor- 

 sey in Am. Antiq., 168, 1879. Yegaha. — Dor- 

 sey, Kansas MS., B. A. E., 1883 (name of Kansa 

 for themselves on their own land). 



Dhighida. A Ponca gens, divided into 

 the subgentes Sindeagdhe and Wamii- 

 tazhi, according to Dorsey. The mean- 

 ing of the name is lost. 



^ixida.— Dorsey in 1.5th Rep. B. A. E., 228, 1897 

 (trans, 'bird'). De-a-ghe'-ta. — Morgan, Anc. Soc, 

 155, 1877 (trans, 'many people'). 



Dhiu, Mentioned by Oiiate (Doc. 

 In^d., XVI, 114, 1871) as a pueblo of New 

 Mexico in 1598. Doubtless situated in the 

 Salinas, in the vicinity of Abo, e. of the 

 Eio Grande, and in all probability a vil- 

 lage of the Piros or the Tigua. 



Dictionaries. Dictionaries have been 

 made of at least 63 different North Ameri- 

 can Indian languages belonging to 19 lin- 

 guistic families, besides many vocabu- 

 laries of other languages. Of 122 diction- 

 aries mentioned below more than half are 

 still in manuscript. 



Beginning with the Eskimauan family, 

 vocabularies of Greenland Eskimo have 

 been supplied by the labors of Egede 

 (1750), Fabricius (1804), Kteinschmidt 

 (1871), Rink (1877), and Kjer and Ras- 

 mussen (1893); of Labrador Eskimo, by 

 Erdmann (1864); of Chiglit (Kopag- 

 miut), by Petitot (1876); and there are 

 collections bv Pinartof the Aleutian Fox 

 (Unalaskau Aleut) dialect (1871, MS.), 

 and of that of the Kaniagmiut (1871-72, 

 MS.). 



In the Athapascan languages there are 

 the dictionaries of Vegreville for the 

 Chipewyan (1853-90, MS.), the three- 

 fold dictionary of Petitot for t^e Mon- 

 tagnais (Chipewyan), Peau de Lievre 

 (Kawchodinne), and Loucheux (Kut- 

 chin) (1876); of Radloff for the Kenai 

 (Knaiakhotana) (1874); of Garrioch 

 (1885) for the Beaver (Tsattine); of 

 Morice for the Tsilkotin (1884, MS.); 

 of Matthews (1890, MS.) and Weber 

 (1905, MS. ) for the Navaho; and of God- 

 dard for the Hupa (1904, MS.). 



Of the languages of the Algonquian 

 family, the Cree has dictionaries by Wat- 

 kins (1865), Lacombe ( 1874), and Vegre- 

 ville {ca. 1800, MS.); the Montagnais, bv 

 Silvy {ca. 1678, MS.), Favre (1696, MS.), 

 Laure (1726, MS.), and Lemoine (1901); 

 the Algonkin, 3 by anonvmous Jesuit 

 fathers (1661, 1662, 1667, all MS.) and 

 leach by Andre {ca. 1688, MS.), Tha- 

 venet {ca. 1815, MS.), and Cuoq (1886); 

 the Micmac, bv Rand (Micmac-English, 

 1854, MS., and English-Micmac, 1888); 

 the Malecite-Passamac|uoddv, bv Demil- 

 lier {ca. 1840, MS.); the "^Abnaki, bv 

 Rasles (1691, first printed in 1833), Aii- 

 bery (1712-15, MS.), Lesueur {ca. 1750, 

 MS'), Nudenans (1760, MS.), Mathevet 

 {ca. 1780, MS.), and Vetromile (1855-75, 

 MS.); the Natick Massachuset, by Trum- 

 bull (1903) ; the Delaware, bv Ettwein 

 {ca. 1788, MS.), Dencke {ca. 1820, MS.), 

 Henry (1860, MS.), Zeisberger (1887), 

 and Brinton and Anthony (1888); the 

 Ojibwa (Chippewa), by Belcourt {ca. 

 1840, MS.), Baraga (1853, new ed. 1878- 

 80), Wilson (187'4), and Ferard (1890, 

 MS.); the Potawatomi, bv Bourassa {ca. 

 1840, MS.) and Gailland (ca. 1870, MS. ); 

 the Ottawa, by Jaunay {ca. 1740, MS. ); 

 the Shawnee, by Gatschet (1894, MS.); 

 the Peoria Illinois, by Gravier {ca. 1710, 

 MS.) and Gatschet (1893, MS.); the 

 Miami Illinois, by Le Boulanger {ca. 

 1720, MS. ) ; the Menominee, by Krake 

 (1882-89, MS.) and Hoffman (1892); the 

 Blackfoot( Siksika) , bv Lacombe (1882-83, 

 MS.), Tims (1889), and McLean (1890, 

 MS.). 



In the Iroquoian languages there are 

 dictionaries of the Huron (Wvandot), by 

 Le Caron (1616-25, MS.), Sagard (1632, 

 repr. 1865), Brebceuf {ca. 1640, MS.), 

 Chaumonot {ca. 1680, MS.), and Carheil 

 (1744, MS.); of the Iroquois Mohawk, 

 by Bruyas (1862), Marcoux (1844, MS.), 

 and Cuoq (1882); of the Iroquois Seneca, 

 by Jesuit fathers (MS.); the Iroquois 

 Onondaga, by Jesuit fathers (printed in 

 1860); of the Iroquois Tuscarora, by Mrs 

 E. A. Smith (1880-82, MS.) and Hewitt 

 (1886, MS.); besides extended glossaries 

 of the Cherokee, by Gatschet (1881, MS. ) 

 and Mooney (1885, MS.; and 1900, 19th 

 Rep. B. A. E.). 



In the Muskhogean languages there are 

 the dictionaries of the Choctaw bv Bying- 

 ton {ca. 1865, MS.), Wright (1880), and 

 Rouquette (ca. 1880, MS.); of the Mas- 

 koki (Creek), by Robertson (1860-89, 

 MS. ) and Loughridge (1882, MS. ). 



The Siouan fainily is provided with 

 dictionaries of the Santee Dakota bv 

 Riggs (1852, 1890) and Williamson (1871, 

 1886); of the Yankton Dakota, by Wil- 

 liamson (1871); of the Quapaw, the Bi- 

 loxi, the Winnebago, and the Dhegiha 



