Year: 1967
Type: article
Abstract: VARIOUS ALGONQUIAN TRIBES of an earlier day usedNadowa -a debatable name that may connote "enemy," or may connote "foreigner" -to designate not only Iroquoians, but also Eskimos, Dakotas, Iowas, Tetons, the Nottoways of Virginia, and most every other non.;Algonquiantribe.The multiplicity of the tribes to which the word refers has led to.misuse and to misunderstanding.Moreover, since the ambiguity of the name gave the French a veil behind which to malign the Iroquois, there are cases where the use of the term is less the result of misunderstanding than of deliberate political double-talk.Certainly Nadowa presents an engaging problem in semasiology.It is the intention of the present article (1) to illustrate the errors and misuse of the name; (2) to explain how the French sometimes artfully introduced it for political reasons, and (3) to deduce, from certain aspects of the name's application, just what N adowa really connotes.
Source: Names
Author: Donald Chaput
Language: Polish
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2084543774