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Posted by Gayle on August 07, 2000 at 19:23:43:

I know some of you out there have some pretty good knowledge of American Indian languages and dialects, so let's see if anybody can give me some help.

Cooper used a fair number of actual Indian names, as well as the English translations, in his books, but he never gave us the Delaware words for Natty Bumppo's various names. Can anybody figure out what the Delaware words would have been for Straight Tongue, Pidgeon, Lap-Ear, Deerslayer, Hawkeye, and Pathfinder, and how they would be pronounced?

Gayle

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: I know some of you out there have some pretty good knowledge of American Indian languages and dialects, so let's see if anybody can give me some help.

: Cooper used a fair number of actual Indian names, as well as the English translations, in his books, but he never gave us the Delaware words for Natty Bumppo's various names.  Can anybody figure out what the Delaware words would have been for Straight Tongue, Pidgeon, Lap-Ear, Deerslayer, Hawkeye, and Pathfinder, and how they would be pronounced?

: Gayle


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