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The work among the Arapaho was hkewise mainly linguistic. It 

 will be recalled that, as I have said previously. Arapaho is diver- 

 gent Algonquian. Complex phonetic shifts abound, and it was pos- 



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Government. 



sible to work out some more of these. Up to the present time it has 

 been the phonetic shifts and lack of some common Algonquian gram- 

 matical features, rather than the presence of un-Algonquian grammati- 

 cal ones that have forced the designation of Arapaho as divergent 

 Algonquian. This summer it was possible to definitely show at least 



