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1. Adirondack, n. and adj. View full entry 1699
...A member of the Algonquin people formerly living along the Ottawa River and its tributaries, in Ontario and Quebec. Also occas. with the and pl. concord: this people...
2. atole, n. View full entry 1716
...A kind of corn or other meal; gruel or porridge made of this....
3. cayuse, n. View full entry 1841
...‘A common Indian pony’ (Scribner's Mag. II. 510). Also, any horse (N. Amer.colloq.)....
4. chogset, n. View full entry 1848-60
...A small, edible, salt-water fish, found on the eastern coast of the United States from Delaware northward; the Burgall....
5. chuck, n.6 View full entry 1880
...A large body of water....
6. cushaw, n. View full entry 1588
...A winter crookneck squash, or a variety of this....
7. high-muck-a-muck, n. View full entry 1856
...A self-important person, one who imagines he is more exalted than he is....
8. iktas, n. View full entry 1856
...With pl. concord. Goods; belongings; things....
9. kayak, n.2 View full entry 1849
...= alewife...
10. Kickapoo, n. View full entry 1722
...(A member of) a North American Indian people of the Algonquian family, now resident in reservations in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Mexico....
11. machicote, n. View full entry 1791
...A skirt worn, usually as an underskirt, by North American Indian women....
12. macock, n. View full entry 1588
...A plant formerly cultivated by the North American Indians of Virginia and Maryland, prob. a kind of summer squash, Cucurbita pepovar.melopepo....
13. maninose, n. View full entry 1677
...The soft-shelled clam, Mya arenaria. Cf. mano...
14. matchcoat, n. View full entry 1612
...A kind of coat formerly worn by North American Indians, originally made of furs, later of coarse woollen cloth (as supplied by white traders)....
15. mathemeg, n. View full entry 1777
...A freshwater catfish of the genus Ictalurus, found in North American lakes....
16. meetsuk, n. View full entry 1896
...A meal; mealtime....
17. menomin, n. View full entry 1791
...A name originally used by Ojibwa Indians and also occas. more widely (esp. in Canada) for: wild rice, Zizania aquatica, or its seeds....
18. Menominee, n. and adj. View full entry 1722
...A member of a semi-sedentary North American people residing, at the time of first European contact, in summer villages in northern Wisconsin and Michigan and subsisting by hunting, gathering, and gardening....
19. methy, n. View full entry 1705
...The burbot, Lota lota....
20. moccasin, n. View full entry 1612
...A kind of soft-soled leather shoe originally worn by North American Indians, later also by trappers, backwoodsmen, etc....
