Okay Dee: You have raised this to a new level. I posted what my grandfather wrote, and you took it to a p....ing contest. Would you please back off? Cecil ----- Original Message ----- From: "eddie biegler" <spurs@qwest.net> To: "cchouk" <cchouk@cox.net> Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 3:09 AM Subject: Re: The New Baby and Chief Joseph > My you are a opinionated person, a suggestion on the correction of history > sends you into a rage, > get a life! I think you should get out of your computer room go to the library > and find out that you > incorrectly stated something about history and when attention was drawn to it, > you could not except > the fact that you could be wrong, or others have another opinion. No one wants > a p------ match with > you, most of us have a life and find there are way more serious things in life > to be upset about. > Have a nice day, DEE > > cchouk wrote: > > > Dee: > > > > Please back off. I don't want to get into a pissing contest with you. > > Stop this now. Please. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "eddie biegler" <spurs@qwest.net> > > To: "cchouk" <cchouk@cox.net> > > Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 12:17 PM > > Subject: Re: The New Baby and Chief Joseph > > > > > If we are to preserve genealogy or history it should be correct, sorry if > > that > > > offends you, it offends me to have > > > Indian people's dialect passed on incorrectly, just as white is the word > > white > > > in English language....Su yupi, is the word in the dialect of the this > > region. > > > Papoose is a word I have never heard any indian call a baby, could be it > > was > > > Navaho for all I know, but doubt any Nez Perce ever called his child or > > anyone > > > else's a papoose. > > > > > > I still say, the Nez Perce people lived in the Wallowa Valley of Oregon, > > not > > > Walla Walla prior to the 1870's there is a difference. > > > Dee > > > > > > cchouk wrote: > > > > > > > Dee: > > > > > > > > Thanks for picking the nits. I don't recall saying that Chief Joseph > > was > > > > trying to "save" the Walla Walla Valley. And give me a break on > > "papoose". > > > > > > > > Cecil > > > > > > > > Cecil Houk, ET1 USN Ret., AG6I > > > > PO Box 530833 > > > > San Diego CA 92153 > > > > res San Diego CA 92154-3654 > > > > NEW EMAIL ADDRESS mailto:cchouk@cox.net > > > > ANDERSON-BLAKELY-EGGERS-FORD-HOUK-KIMSEY-MONTGOMERY-RULAFORD-SIMPSON > > > > Searchable GEDCOM: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/~cchouk > > > > See also: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/~donhouk > > > > My Web pages menu: > > > > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cchouk/rulaford/menu.htm > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > From: "eddie biegler" <spurs@qwest.net> > > > > To: "cchouk" <cchouk@cox.net> > > > > Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 11:20 AM > > > > Subject: Re: The New Baby and Chief Joseph > > > > > > > > > Excuse me but I am not aware of any tribe's dialect in the northwest > > that > > > > uses the name > > > > > or word, "papoose" > > > > > The Valley that Chief Joseph's people were trying to save for their > > people > > > > was not the > > > > > Walla Walla Valley, it was the Wallowa Valley in Oregon. Dee Biegler > > > > /Spokane, Wa. > > > > > > > > > > cchouk wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > See: > > > > > > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cchouk/ccrulaford.htm > > > > > > for the other stories. > > > > > > > > > >