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Omawhaw and Puncaw pronunciation, is more guttural than 

 that of the two former, of which, particularly the Osage, the 

 pronunciation is more brief and vivid. 



The free and independent spirit of the Indian is carried 

 even into their language, and may be recognized there, by- 

 its absolute destitution of a single word, drawn from the 

 language of a civilized people. Thus, notwithstanding their 

 constant familiarity with certain traders, and with various 

 articles of the manufacture of the white people, they uni- 

 versally and in every instance reject the names which they 

 originally hear for such men and things, and apply others, 

 which they readily invent. 



