utes
Webster Dictionary
an extensive tribe of North American Indians of the Shoshone stock, inhabiting Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, and adjacent regions. They are subdivided into several subordinate tribes, some of which are among the most degraded of North American Indians
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new jersey tea
(ˈnu ɪʃ, ˈnyu-)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a North American shrub, Ceanothus americanus, of the buckthorn family, the leaves of which were used as a substitute for tea during the American Revolution.
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north
Webster Dictionary
lying toward the north; situated at the north, or in a northern direction from the point of observation or reckoning; proceeding toward the north, or coming from the north
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tuscaroras
Webster Dictionary
a tribe of North American Indians formerly living on the Neuse and Tar rivers in North Carolina. They were conquered in 1713, after which the remnant of the tribe joined the Five Nations, thus forming the Six Nations. See Six Nations, under Six
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catalpa
Webster Dictionary
a genus of American and East Indian trees, of which the best know species are the Catalpa bignonioides, a large, ornamental North American tree, with spotted white flowers and long cylindrical pods, and the C. speciosa, of the Mississipi valley; -- called also Indian bean
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whitefish
Webster Dictionary
any one of several species of Coregonus, a genus of excellent food fishes allied to the salmons. They inhabit the lakes of the colder parts of North America, Asia, and Europe. The largest and most important American species (C. clupeiformis) is abundant in the Great Lakes, and in other lakes farther north. Called also lake whitefish, and Oswego bass
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powpow
Webster Dictionary
a priest, or conjurer, among the North American Indians
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savine
Webster Dictionary
the North American red cedar (Juniperus Virginiana.)
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jerker
Webster Dictionary
a North American river chub (Hybopsis biguttatus)
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turkey
Webster Dictionary
any large American gallinaceous bird belonging to the genus Meleagris, especially the North American wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo), and the domestic turkey, which was probably derived from the Mexican wild turkey, but had been domesticated by the Indians long before the discovery of America
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uchees
Webster Dictionary
a tribe of North American Indians belonging to the Creek confederation
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hornyhead
Webster Dictionary
any North American river chub of the genus Hybopsis, esp. H. biguttatus
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stroud
Webster Dictionary
a kind of coarse blanket or garment used by the North American Indians
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boomer
Webster Dictionary
a North American rodent, so named because it is said to make a booming noise. See Sewellel
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loups
Webster Dictionary
the Pawnees, a tribe of North American Indians whose principal totem was the wolf
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pemmican
Webster Dictionary
among the North American Indians, meat cut in thin slices, divested of fat, and dried in the sun
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powwow
Webster Dictionary
to use conjuration, with noise and confusion, for the cure of disease, etc., as among the North American Indians
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redskin
Webster Dictionary
a common appellation for a North American Indian; -- so called from the color of the skin
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nutcracker
Webster Dictionary
the American, or Clarke's, nutcracker (Picicorvus Columbianus) of Western North America
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strouding
Webster Dictionary
material for strouds; a kind of coarse cloth used in trade with the North American Indians
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illinois
Webster Dictionary
a tribe of North American Indians, which formerly occupied the region between the Wabash and Mississippi rivers
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sign
Webster Dictionary
hence, one of the gestures of pantomime, or of a language of a signs such as those used by the North American Indians, or those used by the deaf and dumb
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silverfin
Webster Dictionary
a small North American fresh-water cyprinoid fish (Notropis Whipplei)
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algonquian
(ən)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a family of American Indian languages spoken by nearly all the peoples of NE North America except the Iroquoians, from Labrador S to North Carolina and W to Saskatchewan and the Mississippi River, and by several Plains Indian peoples, as the Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Blackfoot.
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kitchen middens
Webster Dictionary
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 two hundred feet wide. The name is applied also to similar mounds found on the American coast from Canada to Florida, made by the North American Indians
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withe-rod
Webster Dictionary
a North American shrub (Viburnum nudum) whose tough osierlike shoots are sometimes used for binding sheaves
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wampum
Webster Dictionary
beads made of shells, used by the North American Indians as money, and also wrought into belts, etc., as an ornament
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alum root
Webster Dictionary
a North American herb (Heuchera Americana) of the Saxifrage family, whose root has astringent properties
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whiting
Webster Dictionary
a North American fish (Merlucius vulgaris) allied to the preceding; -- called also silver hake
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apaches
Webster Dictionary
a group of nomadic North American Indians including several tribes native of Arizona, New Mexico, etc
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