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1. Anasazi, n. and adj. View full entry 1936
...Archaeol. A member of the Basket Maker people, or of their successors the early Pueblo people, of the uplands of northern Arizona, New Mexico, southern Utah, and Colorado, together considered as...
2. banak, n. View full entry 1921
...A hardwood tree of the genus Virola grown esp. in central America; also its timber....
3. chum, n.4 View full entry 1908
...The dog salmon, Oncorhynchus keta....
4. curiara, n. View full entry 1910
...The name in Venezuela and Colombia for a dug-out canoe....
5. Ditidaht, n. View full entry 1988
...= Nitinaht...
6. ebene, n. View full entry 1967
...A psychoactive powder made from a mixture of plant materials, esp. the bark and resin of trees of the genus Virola (family Myristicaceae), which is used as snuff...
7. Garinagu, n. View full entry 1983
...The Garifuna people, considered collectively. Cf. Garifuna2....
8. houngan, n. View full entry 1929
...A priest of the Voodoo cult....
9. kanaima, n. View full entry 1951
...The name given by the Indians of Guyana to an evil avenging spirit....
10. katun, n. View full entry 1902
...A period of twenty years, each with 360 days, in the calendar of the Mayan Indians....
11. kelep, n. View full entry 1904
...A Central American stinging ant, Ectatomma tuberculatum....
12. Lakota, n. and adj. View full entry 1918
...(A member of) a Sioux Indian people of western South Dakota; = Tetona....
13. Na-Dene, adj. and n. View full entry 1915
...Designating a North American Indian language group including the Eyak, Athapaskan and Tlingit languages, and (in some classifications) Haida, or the languages within it. Also: of or relating to the peoples who...
14. 'Namgis, adj. and n. View full entry 1966
...= Nimpkish...
15. Nuu-chah-nulth, adj. and n. View full entry 1978
...Of or relating to any of a group of North American Indian peoples inhabiting the west coast of Vancouver Island, or their language; = Nootka1, in some uses also...
16. Nuxalk, n. and adj. View full entry 1910
...A member of a North American Indian people of the central British Columbia coast, Canada; = Bella Coola1....
17. orenda, n. View full entry 1902
...In Iroquois belief: a spirit or power thought to exist in all things....
18. pok-ta-pok, n. View full entry 1932
...A ball game formerly played by Central and South American Indian peoples; = tlachtli...
19. ponask, v. View full entry 1922
...trans. To cook (food, esp. game or fish) on a stick set in the ground next to an open fire....
20. quena, n. View full entry 1909
...Any of various types of Andean end-blown flute, typically made of wood or cane and having a notched mouthpiece, six finger holes, and a rear thumb hole....
