The Algonquian Names of the Siouan Tribes of Virginia; With Historical And Ethnological Notes
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f Narrative, p. 26. 44 The Algonquian Names of greater, which are found in moist and marish grounds, growing many together, one by another, in ropes, or as thogh they were fastened with a string. Being boiled or sodden, they are a very good meate." Asa Gray, the eminent botanist, said : " Had civilization started in Amer- ica instead of Asia, our ground-nut would have been the first developed esculent tuber, and would have probably held its place in the first rank along with potatoes and sweet ...potatoes of later acquisition." Thus the Mona-sukapari anough were " a people who dig ground-nuts." Compare Otchipwe (Baraga) Nin Mond apini, " I dig potatoes." In The Siouan Tribes of Virginia. 45 the historic name of Saponi, * as applied to a tribe in the annals of Virginia and North Carolina, and as evident by its generic po?i, we have all that remains of the original appellative, and I believe Mr. Mooney (p. 27) is correct in sug- gesting its derivation therefrom. The two tribes visited by Captain Newport, and mentioned by Smith * They were called by the five Nations the Todirichroones, Toderichrone, or Thoderighroonas , as it is variously spelled in the records.
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