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A papoose (from the Algonquian
Algonquian language

Algonquian language may refer to:* Algonquian languages, language sub-family indigenous to North America* Algonquin language, the particular Algonquian language spoken by certain First-Nations people of Canada...
 papoos, meaning "child") is an English loanword
Loanword

A loanword is a word directly taken into one language from another with little or no translation. By contrast, a calque or loan translation is a related concept whereby it is the Meaning or idiom that is borrowed rather than the lexical item itself....
 whose present meaning is "a Native American Indian child" (regardless of tribe
Tribe

A tribe, viewed historically or developmentally, consists of a social group existing before the development of, or outside of, states.Many anthropologists use the term to refer to societies organized largely on the basis of kinship, especially corporate descent groups ....
). The word came originally from the Narragansett
Narragansett (tribe)

The Narragansett tribe are a Native Americans in the United States tribe of the Algonquian language group. They were historically one of the leading tribes of New England, controlling the west of Narragansett Bay in present-day Rhode Island, and also portions of Connecticut and eastern Massachusetts, from the Providence River on the northea...
. In 1643 in Roger Williams' recorded the word in his A Key Into the Language of America
A Key Into the Language of America

File: Key Into the Language of America.jpgA Key Into the Language of America is a book written by Roger Williams in 1643 describing the Native Americans in the United States languages in New England in the 17th century....
 helping to popularize the word.

The term also sometimes refers to Cradle boards and other child carriers, which were used by Native American Indians and went by many names, but in the United States and the United Kingdom, the term papoose is used to refer to a child carrier.






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A papoose (from the Algonquian
Algonquian language

Algonquian language may refer to:* Algonquian languages, language sub-family indigenous to North America* Algonquin language, the particular Algonquian language spoken by certain First-Nations people of Canada...
 papoos, meaning "child") is an English loanword
Loanword

A loanword is a word directly taken into one language from another with little or no translation. By contrast, a calque or loan translation is a related concept whereby it is the Meaning or idiom that is borrowed rather than the lexical item itself....
 whose present meaning is "a Native American Indian child" (regardless of tribe
Tribe

A tribe, viewed historically or developmentally, consists of a social group existing before the development of, or outside of, states.Many anthropologists use the term to refer to societies organized largely on the basis of kinship, especially corporate descent groups ....
). The word came originally from the Narragansett
Narragansett (tribe)

The Narragansett tribe are a Native Americans in the United States tribe of the Algonquian language group. They were historically one of the leading tribes of New England, controlling the west of Narragansett Bay in present-day Rhode Island, and also portions of Connecticut and eastern Massachusetts, from the Providence River on the northea...
. In 1643 in Roger Williams' recorded the word in his A Key Into the Language of America
A Key Into the Language of America

File: Key Into the Language of America.jpgA Key Into the Language of America is a book written by Roger Williams in 1643 describing the Native Americans in the United States languages in New England in the 17th century....
 helping to popularize the word.

The term also sometimes refers to Cradle boards and other child carriers, which were used by Native American Indians and went by many names, but in the United States and the United Kingdom, the term papoose is used to refer to a child carrier.