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Umatilla, multiple places named for the Umatilla people. Umpqua, multiple places named for the Umpqua people. Willamette, multiple places from the Clackamas name for the Columbia River. Yachats / Yachats River, uncertain origin. Yamhill, multiple places named for a band of the Kalapuya people.
Fort Erie: Iroquoian, erige, meaning "cat". Gananoque: Origin unknown, thought to be derived from Native languages for "place of health" or "meeting place" or "water running over rocks." Garafraxa: Possibly derived from the word for "panther country". Iroquois Falls: Named for the Iroquois people of Ontario.
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.
The primary Native American languages in Michigan are Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi, all of which are dialects of Algonquin. Some other places names in Michigan are found to be derived from Sauk, Oneida, Wyandot, Abenaki, Shawnee, Mohawk, Seneca, Seminole, Iroquois, and Delaware, although many of these tribes are not found in Michigan.
Aboriginal place names of New York. New York State Education Department, New York State Museum. Bright, William (2004). Native American Place Names of the United States. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. Campbell, Lyle (1997). American Indian Languages: The Historical Linguistics of Native America. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Some of the current place names of Native American origin in present-day Virginia and Maryland can be found recorded on Capt. John Smith's 1612 map of the region. This is a list of Native American place names in the U.S. state of Virginia.
Mount Tehama. Tuolumne County – disputed origin; likely from the phrase talmalamne of unknown origin, meaning "cluster of stone wigwams ". Tuolumne City. Tuolumne River. Tuolumne Grove. Tuolumne Meadows. Grand Canyon of the Tuolumne. Yolo County – from the Patwin phrase yo-loy, meaning "a place abounding in rushes". Village of Yolo.
Sauk County – named after the Sauk people. Sauk City. Saukville. Waukesha County – Potawatomi word meaning "little foxes". City of Waukesha. Waupaca County – Menominee word meaning "white sand bottom" or "brave young hero". Waushara County – a Native American word meaning "good earth". Winnebago County – named after the Winnebago people.