[PW] Re: Inuit for raccoon

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In a message dated 8/5/2006 9:34:18 PM Mountain Daylight Time, 
clemieux at spokanelibrary.org writes:

> think you are facing two difficulties here. First, there are a large
> number of Native Alaskan languages, none of which appears to be actually
> called Inuit(though I could be miataken). See Alaskool.org
> (http://www.alaskool.org/language/languageindex.htm)
> for more info. Second, the raccoon's range does not extend that far
> north, according to a couple of books on North American mammals I
> checked, so the native languages may not include a word for "raccoon".
> It certainly did not appear in either of the online dictionaries I
> checked through the Alaskool web site. Your patron may need to pick a
> different language :-(
> 
> Chris LeMieux
> 



       It should probably be one of the languages in the Athabascan 
group--such as Apache, Navajo, or many other tribes who emigrated across the then 
existing land bridge from Mongolia some 14,000 years ago and spread south and east.