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many terms in common, yet they are not all used with the same mean- 
ing, and that the difference in social organization is responsible for this. 
For example Plains Cree and Fox have a term in common for ^my 
daughter/ but in Fox a male speaker can apply it to his brother's daugh- 
ter also, whereas in Plains Cree he cannot. To this we reply that 
though both the Ojibwa and Fox are organized in exogamic gentes with 
descent in the male line and possess a number of terms of relationship 
in common, nevertheless all the terms are not used with the same mean- 
ing. An example is the term for 'my father' which is common to both 
Fox and Ojibwa as well as to numerous other Algonquian tribes, but 
which can be used in Fox also with the sense of 'my paternal uncle' 
though it cannot be so used in Ojibwa where an entirely distinct word 
is used for this latter meaning. So it is clear that difference in 
social organization by itself will not satisfactorily account for the 
different usage of the same term in Plains Cree and Fox. When it is 
further noted that Ojibwa, Ottawa, Algonkin, Potawatomi, and Cree 
share in common words for 'my brother's son' and 'my brother's daugh- 
ter,' with a male speaker in each case, as opposed to Sauk, Fox, Kicka- 
poo, Shawnee, Menominee, Peoria and closely allied dialects — all of 
whom employ the common Algonquian words for 'my son' and 'my 
daughter' respectively for the above — it becomes clear that we have to 
deal with linguistic phenomena. For it will be remembered that Cree- 
Montagnais, Menominee, Sauk, Fox, Kickapoo, and Shawnee, form one 
sub-division of Central Algonquian dialects and Ojibwa, Ottawa, Al- 
gonkin, Potawatomi, Peoria and closely related dialects another such 
sub-division.^ Adequately to account for the divergent distribution of 
the terms in question we must assume that Cree has bodily borrowed 
them from Ojibwa, and that Peoria and closely related dialects under 
the influence of Sauk, Fox, etc., have extended the meanings of the terms 
for 'my son' and 'my daughter' to include also 'my brother's son' and 
'my brother's daughter' (with male speaker in each case) respectively. 
In other words, in the latter case a category has been taken over. The 
geographical distribution of the tribes mentioned distinctly favors these 
hypotheses. It is another linguistic question as to which of the two sets 
of terms represents the hypothetical Algonquian parent-language most 
closely. The fact that Delaware and Munsee, who are organized in 
exogamic clans with descent in the female line, and who form a dis- 
tinct sub-division of the Central Algonquian dialects, and Micmac, a 
somewhat divergent member of Eastern Algonquian dialects, agree with 
Sauk, Fox, etc., tends to show that the latter represent the primitive 
