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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.
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.
Pages in category "Oregon placenames of Native American origin" The following 74 pages are in this category, out of 74 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
One of the many ways Native American influence shines through the United States is in our place names.
Map showing the source languages/language families of state names. The fifty U.S. states, the District of Columbia, the five inhabited U.S. territories, and the U.S. Minor Outlying Islands have taken their names from a wide variety of languages. The names of 24 states derive from indigenous languages of the Americas and one from Hawaiian.
List of Virginia placenames of Native American origin This page was last edited on 6 October 2022, at 02:31 (UTC). Text is ...
In 2001, Oregon's Senate Bill 770 established "government to government" relations between tribal nations and the Oregon State Government. [77] This bill created ORS 182.162-168, [78] which further codified the legal relationships between the state of Oregon and the nine federally-recognized tribes located within the bounds of the state. The ...
The Native American tribes in Virginia are the Indigenous peoples whose tribal nations historically or currently are based in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States of America. Native peoples lived throughout Virginia for at least 12,000 years. [ 1 ]