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YANKEE |
American from the north |
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REDSKIN |
A common appellation for a North American Indian; -- so
called from the color of the skin. |
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DEATHBIRD |
Tengmalm's or Richardson's owl (Nyctale Tengmalmi); --
so called from a superstition of the North American Indians that its
note presages death. |
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BLACKFEET |
A tribe of North American Indians formerly
inhabiting the country from the upper Missouri River to the
Saskatchewan, but now much reduced in numbers. |
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WINNEBAGOES |
A tribe of North American Indians who originally
occupied the region about Green Bay, Lake Michigan, but were driven
back from the lake and nearly exterminated in 1640 by the IIlinnois. |
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SHOSHONES |
A linguistic family or stock of North American
Indians, comprising many tribes, which extends from Montana and Idaho
into Mexico. In a restrict... |
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WHITING |
Any one of several species of North American marine
sciaenoid food fishes belonging to genus Menticirrhus, especially M.
Americanus, found from... |
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LODGE |
A family of North American Indians, or the persons who
usually occupy an Indian lodge, -- as a unit of enumeration, reckoned
from four to six p... |
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TURKEY |
Any large American gallinaceous bird belonging to the genus
Meleagris, especially the North American wild turkey (Meleagris
gallopavo), and the... |
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KITCHEN MIDDENS |
Relics of neolithic man found on the coast of
Denmark, consisting of shell mounds, some of which are ten feet high,
one thousand feet long, and... |
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LACROSSE |
A game of ball, originating among the North American
Indians, now the popular field sport of Canada, and played also in
England and the United ... |