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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" Norwalk River (and city): (Algonquian) noyank or "point of land" or from the name Naramauk. Oronoque: (Quinnipiac) "curved place" or "land at the bend"
Connecticut, the state, and river: (in several dialects) "place of the long river" or "by the long tidal stream" Aspetuck River (and town): (Paugussett) "at the high place" Cockenoe Island: (Montauk) from the name of a 17th-century native interpreter; Coginchaug River: (Wangunk) "place where fish are dried/cured"
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 .
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".
Currently, no Wangunk political organization is a state-recognized tribe by Connecticut [8] or federally recognized as a Native American tribe; [9] however there are contemporary Wangunk descendants living in Middletown who maintain kinship connections and cultural traditions. According to 2023 statements from Wangunk Elder Red Oak (Gary O'Neil ...
The Podunk were a Native American people who spoke an Algonquian Quiripi language and lived primarily in what is now known as Hartford County, Connecticut, United States. English colonists adopted use of a Nipmuc dialect word for the territory of this people. The Podunk are likely the Hoccanum people. [2]
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"
Location of the Schaghticoke Reservation. The Schaghticoke (/ ˈ s k æ t ɪ k oʊ k / SKAT-i-kohk or / ˈ s k æ t ɪ k ʊ k / SKAT-i-kuuk) are a Native American tribe of the Eastern Woodlands who historically consisted of Mahican, Potatuck, Weantinock, Tunxis, Podunk, and their descendants, peoples indigenous to what is now New York, Connecticut, and Massachusetts.