• DOI:10.1086/465000
• Corpus ID: 144269688

The Last Words of Biloxi

@article{Haas1968TheLW,
  title={The Last Words of Biloxi},
  author={Mary R. Haas},
  journal={International Journal of American Linguistics},
  year={1968},
  volume={34},
  pages={77 - 84}
}

• M. Haas
• Published 1 April 1968
• Linguistics
• International Journal of American Linguistics

1. The Siouan affinity of the Biloxi language was not known until 1886 when Albert S. Gatschet of the Bureau of American Ethnology rediscovered a remnant of the tribe living near Lecompte, La. At that time the chief authority on Siouan languages was James Owen Dorsey, who recorded Biloxi texts and vocabulary materials between January 14 and February 21, 1892 and again in February, 1893.1 In 1908 John R. Swanton discovered the last speaker of Ofo living among the Tunica near Marksville, La., and learned, to his surprise,2 that that language was also of Siouan affinity. He collected what he could of the language and prepared a dictionary. In the meantime he had also been engaged in editing the Dorsey manuscript dictionary of Biloxi. In 1912 the materials