Post by cinye80 on Oct 5, 2020 9:46:11 GMT -5
I am always interested in how words are put together.
In consulting with Mike Cowdrey I now add this thread:
Low Dog is carrying a Three Bladed War Cub in all his photographs.
Mike looked up the name of the club in father Bueche's Dictionary:
Canmilokatapi.
Looking in my Lakota and Dakota dictionaries I see the name is a contraction:
Can = wood; Mi (Mila) = knife; O = in; kata = kill by striking; Pi = plural.
A wooden object with knifes in it used to kill by striking [the enemy].
Bushotter gives the name of this special club in his papers.
I gave a quick look, but as there is no index, I gave up the search.
Can anyone locate Bushotters name for this club?
Louie Garcia, Tokio, ND