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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".
Canada itself is a name derived from a Laurentian Iroquois word meaning "village" [1] [2] (c.f. Mohawk kaná:ta’). [3] [4] See Canada's name for more details. Aboriginal names are widespread in Canada - for a full listing see List of place names in Canada of aboriginal origin. Those listed here are only well-known, important or otherwise ...
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.
One of the many ways Native American influence shines through the United States is in our place names.
Their names are in ascending alphabetical order and the table may be re-sorted by clicking on the arrows in the column header cells. The Taíno were the Indigenous inhabitants of the Bahamas , Greater Antilles , and some of the Lesser Antilles – especially in Guadeloupe , Dominica and Martinique .
This issue is complicated because a great majority of Mexicans are mestizos and therefore being part Native is not unusual as in Canada or the US. The list only include Indigenous proper and mestizos with an Indigenous parent. This list also includes a few Pre-Columbian figures considered remarkable in the history and culture of Mexico.
Puebloan from San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico Navajo family. The Indigenous peoples of the North American Southwest are those in the current states of Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Nevada in the western United States, and the states of Sonora and Chihuahua in northern Mexico.
American + Sāmoa: The CIA World Factbook says "The name Samoa is composed of two parts, 'sa', meaning sacred, and 'moa', meaning center, so the name can mean Holy Center; alternately, it can mean 'place of the sacred moa bird' of Polynesian mythology." [113] "American" is ultimately derived from Amerigo Vespucci. [114]