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Post by clw on Mar 19, 2007 14:52:53 GMT -6
Most sources name this man Three Bears. Actually Mato is the Lakota word for Grizzly Bear, so that would be more correct, I think. A fluent speaker taught me that Matohota is the grizzly bear, ihanbla mato is the black bear -- the bear dreamer. And of course yamni is three. Not sure where yamani with the extra 'a' added is derived from, but I guess you can take your pick as to what kind of bear he's name after. I love the color job. It's beautifully done! And I've certainly learned a lot about the man from all the information here. Being around all of you is like living in a classroom.
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Post by charlie on Mar 20, 2007 6:10:20 GMT -6
Dear Diane: your compliments make become my face all red.....
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Post by clw on Mar 20, 2007 8:06:53 GMT -6
An interesting bit I trivia I learned recently -- there was a prairie bear. He was a relative of the black bear but reddish brown to tawny, much like the prairie he lived on.
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Post by crzhrs on Mar 20, 2007 8:43:09 GMT -6
Wouldn't that have been the Plains Grizzly Bear? . . . which is now extinct.
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Post by clw on Mar 20, 2007 10:02:41 GMT -6
Horse, I can't remember where I found the reference, but I do remember it was in the context of the Plains Indians and this bear being a part of their culture and I remember he was referred to as a subspecies of black bear. Googleing I found the cinnamon bear "..........a subspecies of the black bear - the smallest type of North American bear. As its name implies, the cinnamon bear has rusty brown fur. This subspecies is found in Wyoming, western Montana, Idaho, eastern Colorado, and parts of Canada." (oddly this is from the Seaworld website). I suspect this is the one and that his range used to include more of the plains.
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Post by Diane Merkel on Mar 20, 2007 19:41:10 GMT -6
No slight intended, Gary! I appreciate all of our international posters, but I found the exchange between those three especially heartwarming because English is not their first tongue and I've gotten to know them each through off-board exchanges. I adore them, simply adore them. (Are you blushing, Charlie? ;D )
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Post by Frank on Mar 20, 2007 21:17:31 GMT -6
I learned my english mostly through movies LOL...well, school had "something" to do with it but movies had a lot...
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Post by elisabeth on Mar 20, 2007 23:14:11 GMT -6
clw,
I think the cinnamon bear may have extended as far as Kansas at one time, as Custer's on record as having had a pet one when the 7th was based at Leavenworth in 1870. (Leckie, Elizabeth Bacon Custer and the Making of a Myth, p. 125.) He'd been to Denver shortly before, however, so I suppose might have acquired it in Colorado.
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