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  2. List of place names of Native American origin in the United ...

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    The name "Wyoming" comes from a Delaware Tribe word Mechaweami-ing or "maughwauwa-ma", meaning large plains or extensive meadows, which was the tribe's name for a valley in northern Pennsylvania. The name Wyoming was first proposed for use in the American West by Senator Ashley of Ohio in 1865 in a bill to create a temporary government for ...

  3. List of Illinois placenames of Native American origin - Wikipedia

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    The town's name was later changed to conform to this. Roanoke; Sauk Village – named after the Sauk people; Saunemin – named after a Kickapoo chief; Scioto – The name Scioto is derived from the Wyandot word skɛnǫ·tǫ' meaning "deer" Scioto Mills; Sciota Township; Seneca; Shabbona and Shabbona Grove – named after the Potawatomi chief ...

  4. Illinois Confederation - Wikipedia

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    The Illinois Confederation, also referred to as the Illiniwek or Illini, were made up of a loosely organized group of 12 to 13 tribes who lived in the Mississippi River Valley. Eventually member tribes occupied an area reaching from Lake Michicigao (Michigan) to Iowa , Illinois , Missouri , and Arkansas .

  5. Category:Native American tribes in Illinois - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Native American tribes in Illinois" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C.

  6. Mitchigamea - Wikipedia

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    The Mitchigamea do not exist as a social or ethnic group and do not have a living federally recognized tribal government. Despite this the remnants of the Illinois Confederacy which they belonged to exists today as the federally recognized Peoria Tribe of Indians, and many of them were noted for being absorbed by the Quapaw, which also still exist today as a federally recognized tribe.

  7. Shabbona - Wikipedia

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    Shabbona was born around 1775 of the Odawa (Ottawa) tribe either on the Maumee River in Ohio, in Ontario or in a Native American village in Illinois. [2] [4] [5] Shabbona's own biography places his birth on the Kankakee River; "Shaubena, according to his statement, was born in the year 1775 or 1776, at an Indian village on the Kankakee River, now in Will county."

  8. List of state and territory name etymologies of the United ...

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    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.

  9. Kaskaskia - Wikipedia

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    The name 'Kaskaskia' derives from the old Miami-Illinois word for a katydid, phonetically kaaskaaskia. This name later appeared in the modern Peoria and Miami dialects as kaahkaahkia . [ 12 ] This is already seen in Gravier's early-18th century Illinois dictionary, where for the word "caskaskia", he gives "cigale. item nation Ilinoise, les ...