Paola

[Paul Mackin]

On 7/29/2012 2:20 AM, Alex Colter wrote:
> I'm livin not far from Peoria these days, Natives and the Ghosts of 
> Natives are still seen wandering these lands...
> but, forgive me, what is the Pynchon reference here?

Noting human is alien to me.

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>
> On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 12:42 AM, Ian Livingston 
> <igrlivingston at gmail.com <mailto:igrlivingston at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I wonder what the chances are that Pynchon knew this? I mean the
>     Malta thing is obvious and probably all one needs to know, but
>     this is interesting, just the same.
>
>     (Wikipedia)
>
>
>         Language and name
>
>     The Peoria spoke a dialect of the Miami-Illinois language
>     <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami-Illinois_language>. The name
>     "Peoria" derives from their autonym
>     <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endonym> or name for themselves in
>     the Illinois language, /peewaareewa/ (modern pronunciation
>     /peewaalia/). Originally it meant, "Comes carrying a pack on his
>     back."^[2] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peoria_tribe#cite_note-1>
>     No speakers of the Peoria language survive.
>
>     ...
>
>     During the 1950s, the US government pursued a policy of Indian
>     termination
>     <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_termination_policy> to end
>     its special relationship with tribes. It dissolved the Peoria
>     tribal government, which lost federal recognition in 1959. Tribal
>     members objected and began the process to regain federal
>     recognition, which they achieved in 1978.^[6]
>     <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peoria_tribe#cite_note-ohs-5>
>     ...
>
>
>         Namesakes
>
>       * The city of Peoria, Illinois
>         <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peoria,_Illinois> and the
>         surrounding Peoria County
>         <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peoria_County,_Illinois> are
>         named after the tribe which lived in that area.
>       * The Peoria War
>         <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peoria_War> occurred in this
>         area but is named for the town, as the tribe had already left
>         for Missouri before this conflict occurred.
>       * Peoria, Oklahoma
>         <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peoria,_Oklahoma> and Paola,
>         Kansas <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paola,_Kansas> are named
>         directly for the tribe. Many other places named Peoria
>         <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_places_named_Peoria> and
>         US Navy ships were named after the town in Illinois.
>
>
>     -- 
>     "Less than any man have I  excuse for prejudice; and I feel for
>     all creeds the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that
>     even the trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are
>     all fragments of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more
>     about the ultimates than the simplest urchin in the streets." --
>     Will Durant
>
>

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