O Brave New Words

Native American loanwords are a crucial though little acknowledged part of the English language. This book shows how the more than onethousand current loanwords were adopted and demonstrates how the changing relationships between Indians and European settlers can be traced in the rate of loanword borrowing and the kinds of words adopted. Appalachian from the Appalachian Mountains in the eastern United States from the Muskogean name of the Apalachee tribe of Florida Moose Eastern Abenaki mos Pa