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Okeechobee County – from the Hitchiti words oki (water) and chobi (big), a reference to Lake Okeechobee, the largest lake in Florida. Osceola County – named after Osceola, the Native American leader who led the Second Seminole War. Sarasota County. Seminole County – named after the Seminole Native American tribe.
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.
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.
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.
Assawompset Pond: Narragansett "trading place"; (Wampanoag) "place of large upright rock" Lake Chaubunagungamaug : (Nipmuck-Mohegan) "boundary fishing place" Chappaquiddick Island : (Wampanoag) "separated island"
Passamaquoddy Bay: tribal name; "place of abundance of pollack" Pattee Pond; Pemadumcook Chain of Lakes: (Maliseet) "extended sand bar place" Ambajejus; Pemadumcook Lake; Pemaquid River. Pemaquid Pond; Pennamaquan River; Pennesseewassee Lake Little Pennesseewassee Lake; Pequawket Lake; Piscataqua River. Piscataqua River (tributary) East Branch ...
Potomac Heights. Potomac Park -. Quantico - Quantico is a Native American name meaning "place of dancing." Romancoke - the name Romancoke comes from the Algonquian word for "circling of the water." Seneca - named for the Seneca people, an Iroquoian tribe. Takoma Park - originally the name of Mount Rainier, from Lushootseed [təqʷúbəʔ ...
Many places throughout the U.S. state of California 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 indigenous languages.