Talk:Omaha (tribe)

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[edit] Against the current?

I'm puzzled. Where does the translation "Against the current" for U-Mo'n-Ho'n (the original name of the Omaha tribe) come from? John Joseph Mathews, who as far as I know was a fluent speaker (near native level) of Dhegiha, translated U-Mo'n-Ho'n as "Dwellers on the Bluff". In his book The Osages Mathews noted that the Omaha were also known as "up-river-people" because they lived up the river north of the Osage. But Mathews has nothing at all to say about going "against the current". John E Koontz, a linguist specialized in siouan, has nothing about the names of the tribes on his Omaha-Ponca page: [1]. Is "against the current" a translation at all? Or is it a tribal slogan? Napikwan 20:24, 20 December 2006 (UTC)