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Osawatomie – a compound of two primary Native American Indian tribes from the area, the Osage and Pottawatomie; Tonganoxie – derives its name from a member of the Delaware tribe that once occupied land in what is now Leavenworth County and western Wyandotte County; Topeka – from Kansa dóppikʔe, "a good place to dig wild potatoes"
Mobile County – named after a Native American tribe, perhaps from Choctaw moeli, meaning "to row" or "to paddle". [13] Shared with the city of Mobile, the Mobile Bay and the Mobile River. Talladega County – derived from the Muscogee phrase italua atigi, meaning "town on the border". [14] Shared with the cities of Talladega and Talladega ...
Populations are the total census counts and include non-Native American people as well, sometimes making up a majority of the residents. The total population of all of them is 1,043,762. [citation needed] A Bureau of Indian Affairs map of Indian reservations belonging to federally recognized tribes in the continental United States
Chiapas- Believed to derive from the ancient city of Chiapan, which means "the place where the chia sage grows" in Náhuatl. Chihuahua- May come from "dry place" in an unknown Indian language. [8] Coahuila- possibly from the Nahuatl word Cuauhillan - "Place of trees" Guanajuato- Means "hill of frogs" in the Purépecha language [citation needed]
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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.
This is a list of Native American place names in the U.S. state of Oklahoma.Oklahoma has a long history of Native American settlement and reservations. From 1834 to 1907, prior to Oklahoma's statehood, the territory was set aside by the US government and designated as Indian Territory, and today 6% of the population identifies as Native American.
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.