[PW] Re: Inuit for raccoon

[Charles Early]

Actually, I believe it was closer to 4,000 years ago that the Athabascans 
emigrated from Asia, about 10,000 years after the ancestors of all the 
other Native Americans.  The land bridge wasn't around by that time.

At 12:06 AM 8/6/2006, Rboconoresq at aol.com wrote:
>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.
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