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Shared with the Moodus River and Moodus Reservoir. Moosup: (Narragansett) a chief named "Mausup" Mystic River (and town): (Pequot-Mohegan) "great tidal river" Naugatuck River (and town): (Quinnipiac) "single tree" Niantic River (and town): tribe; "point of land on tidal river"
Pages in category "Connecticut placenames of Native American origin" The following 48 pages are in this category, out of 48 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Indian Place Names of New England, Museum of the American Indian Heye Foundation; O'Brien, Frank Waabu (2010). Understanding Indian Place Names in Southern New England. Colorado: Bauu Press. Trumbull, James H. (1881). Indian Names of Places, etc., in and on the Borders of Connecticut: With Interpretations of Some of Them.
Connecticut placenames of Native American origin (48 P) K. King Philip's War (1 C, 67 P) N. ... List of place names of Native American origin in New England; Potatuck;
American Indian reservations in Connecticut (5 P) S. Schaghticoke tribe (7 P) W. Wappinger (3 C, 10 P) Pages in category "Native American tribes in Connecticut"
Miami – Native American name for Lake Okeechobee and the Miami River, precise origin debated; see also Mayaimi [44] Micanopy – named after Seminole chief Micanopy. Myakka City – from unidentified Native American language. Ocala – from Timucua meaning "Big Hammock".
The reversal has unsettled many in the southeastern Connecticut town, which has considered itself immune to controversies stirred by Native American mascots elsewhere because of its close ties to ...
In Chatham, one was established for a man named Sawsean and his descendants. The third, 300 acres in size, was established for Sowheag, the sachem of Mattabesett, and the Native peoples of Mattabesett. [6] In a 1761 survey of indigenous peoples in Connecticut, local Native peoples still resided at "Mattabéeset (at Wongunck, opposite Middletown ...