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Many places throughout the United States take their names from the languages of the indigenous Native American/American Indian tribes. The following list includes settlements, geographic features, and political subdivisions whose names are derived from these languages.
The Wampanoag people are indigenous Algonquian peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands, who lived throughout northeast North America and are currently tribally based in present-day Massachusetts and Rhode Island with descendants spread throughout the world.
Wampanoag probably derives from Wapanoos, first documented on Adriaen Block's 1614 map, which was the earliest European representation of the Wampanoag territory. The Wampanoag translate this word to "People of the First Light."
Last month, a citizen committee in Montgomery County, Texas made the decision to re-classify the children's book, "Colonization and the Wampanoag Story" by Linda Coombs from children's non-fiction ...
In September, an appointed citizens review committee for a library in Montgomery County, Texas recategorized a children's book by Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) member Linda Coombs from ...
John Horse, Juan Caballo (Black Seminole, 1812–1882), war chief in Florida, also the leader of African-Seminole in Mexico. [96] Edmonia Lewis (African-Haitian-Mississauga, c. 1845–1911) sculptor. [97] Zerviah Gould Mitchell (African-Wampanoag, 1807–1898) educator and direct descent of the sachem Massasoit. [98] [99]
The new country was named after its capital city, Mexico City. The new flag had a symbol of the Aztecs at its center, an eagle perched on a nopal cactus. Mexico declared the abolition of slavery in 1829 and the equality of all citizens before the law in 1857.
The nation-state of Mexico is named after the traditional territory of the Mēxihcah people. Mi'kma'ki, [178] Migmagi [179] ("Land of the Allies") Mi'kmaq country, the Mi'kmaq homeland, [180] Micmac country, the Micmac country, [181] the Micmac homeland [182] Mi'kmaw (Micmac) In the Passamaquoddy-Maliseet language: Mihkomahkik. [183]