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tribes as a missionary, friend, and trader. He extolled some elements of Indian culture as superior to European culture, and he wrote a complementary poem at the end of each chapter within the book.
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Allan A. Metcalf, The world in so many words: a country-by-country tour of words that have shaped our language (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1999)
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A vocabulary or collection of words and phrases which have been supposed to be peculiar to the United States of America,
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According to J. Patrick Cesarini, Williams also published the book to rebut Massachusetts' distorted claims in
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Introduction to the Narragansett Language: A Study of Roger Williams' A Key Into the Language of America
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An help to the Language of the Natives in that part of America called New England
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The book helped to popularize and introduce numerous American Indian
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O Brave New Words: Native American Loanwords in Current English
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Indigenous languages of the North American eastern woodlands
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The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution for Cause of Conscience
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Index


Roger Williams
Gregory Dexter
Roger Williams
Native American
New England
Narragansett
Algonquian language
Puritan
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Providence Plantations
Colony of Rhode Island
Narragansett
Wampanoag
New England's First Fruits
conversions
Wequash Cooke
Pequot
Connecticut Colony
Gregory Dexter
London, England
loan words
lexicon
Moccasin
Moose
Papoose
Powwow
Quahog
Squash
Squaw

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