Indigenous Words in English

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Across
  1. 4. from 'āhuacatl', a delicious food that grows on trees and has an edible skin, creamy green flesh, and a big pit in the middle
  2. 5. leather shoe or 'maxkeseni'
  3. 7. 'barbakoa' specially cooked meat, usually in sauce (Arawakan)
  4. 9. 'pawewa': now a ceremonial gathering, earlier it meant "to have a dream or vision", (Algonquin)
  5. 11. once a tool for dragging belongings through snow and mud, now a tool for cruising down sledding hills (Algonquin)
  6. 15. 'chīlli' a special, spicy fruit (Nahuatl)
  7. 16. 'moos' large animal of North American forests (Algonquin)
  8. 17. one of the three sisters that grows along the ground, she is plump and has a skin with edible flesh inside (Algonquin)
  9. 18. another, smellier forest-dwelling animal (Algonquin)
  10. 19. once pronounced doodem, meaning a family group now referring to polls and animal symbols (Algonquin)
  11. 20. "nut" or 'pekani'(Algonquin)
  12. 21. 'xahcalli'grass hut (Nahuatl)
  13. 22. 'hurakán' intense storm along ocean coasts (Taino)
  14. 24. squirrel indigenous to America (Algonquin)
Down
  1. 1. forest-dwelling, masked animal (Algonquin)
  2. 2. from 'cacahuatl' (Nahuatl)
  3. 3. 'ahuacatl'+'mole' avocado sauce (Nahuatl)
  4. 6. an animal, "snow shoveler" much like a moose (Algonquin)
  5. 8. 'hamaca' a net that hangs in trees for resting in
  6. 10. "white dog-like animal" 'apassem'(Algonquin)
  7. 11. 'thípi' Lakota for "house"
  8. 12. now a state, "great sea" or 'mishigami'(Algonquin)
  9. 13. "great river" or 'misizibii' (Algonquin)
  10. 14. 'ch'arki' dried meat (Quechua)
  11. 19. from *temah-, "to cut" + *-a·kan, "instrument for" (Algonquin)
  12. 20. 'batata' or 'papa' a starchy food that grows underground (Haitian carib or Taino)
  13. 23. "snowshoe-netter" referring to people from snowy places who walk on snow shoes (Algonquin)