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IT IS a relatively easy matter to detect foreign words entering a culture along with a new trait, and words coined to apply to a borrowed trait. The more indirect effect on the vocabulary, however, the falling into disuse of terms and grammatical forms as a result of white contact is less obvious. In fact, it was long the custom to consider the latter as negligible, perhaps due to the fact that this aspect of acculturation has rarely been made the subject of specific and systematic investigation in the field.' It is because of this dearth that I feel justified in presenting my own meager material on this subject, though it is merely suggestive rather than conclusive. In my material I depend entirely on recorded ethnographic texts and on conversations,2 as I paid no attention to the problem in the field. I