Indian Local Names
Author : Stephen Gill Boyd
Publisher :
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 38,78 MB
Release : 1885
Category : Names, Geographic
ISBN :
Author : Stephen Gill Boyd
Publisher :
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 38,78 MB
Release : 1885
Category : Names, Geographic
ISBN :
Author : V. Jain
Publisher : Scientific Publishers
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 43,51 MB
Release : 2017-07-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9387869571
Field workers in ethnobotany and anthropology come across different local names of plants in different regions and localities and find it difficult to relate them with their botanical identity. The present book covers over 26000 tribal and rural local names documented from original research papers based on field work in the country in the last sixty years and provides corresponding botanical identity of the plants. Most of the local names are endemic to small regions and different from common Hindi or regional names. This book will solve a long standing problem for field workers especially non-botanists and ground level scholars and also sociologists, anthropologists, philologists, ethnographers, geography scientists, rural developmental officers, forest officers, cooperative society, NGO’s dealing with tribal and rural welfare as well as for foreign tourists in determining botanical identity of plants through local names encountered during their travel in various parts of the country.
Author : J. Hammond Trumbull
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 61 pages
File Size : 31,4 MB
Release : 2019-12-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
"The Composition of Indian Geographical Names: Illustrated from the Algonkin Languages" by J. Hammond Trumbull As a scholar of Native Americans, Trumbull had the experience and authority to pen this useful reference text. In this book, he gives readers a guide to the Algonkin language by listing the names of different geographic locations with translations and explanations to make them make sense to English speaking audiences.
Author : John Charles 1899- Huden
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,12 MB
Release : 2023-07-22
Category :
ISBN : 9781022886988
This invaluable resource provides a detailed guide to the Indian place names of New England, alongside their meanings and significance. Edited by Charles Huden and published by the Museum of the American Indian, this book sheds light on the cultural heritage of the region's indigenous peoples. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Douglas Lithgow
Publisher : Digital Scanning Inc
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 45,43 MB
Release : 2015-12-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 158218870X
The names which the original inhabitants assigned to our mountains, plains and valleys, are mostly lost. Many of our rivers, bays, and falls of water are yet known by their ancient Indian names. On account of their originality, antiquity, signification, singularity, and sound, these names ought to be carefully preserved. In every respect they are far preferable to the unmeaning application, and constant repetition of an improper English name. " Samuel Williams, LL.D., Natural and Civil History of Vermont My sole aim in the production of this volume has been to collect the accessible Indian Place and Proper Names of New England, and to give the locations of the one, with their interpretations, as far as possible, and the tribal affiliations of the other.
Author : Martha W. McCartney
Publisher :
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 14,77 MB
Release : 2017-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806320625
Gives variations of historic Indian place names under their most common spelling or modern equivalent. The information was drawn from land patents, government records, public and private archives, and collections of historical maps, enabling researchers to see how Indian place names changed over time and how they correspond to the modern landscape.
Author : Anu Kapur
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 23,5 MB
Release : 2019-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0429614217
This book is the first of its kind to chart the terrain of contemporary India’s many place names. It explores different ‘place connections’, investigates how places are named and renamed, and looks at the forces that are remaking the future place name map of India. Lucid and accessible, this book explores the bonds between names, places and people through a unique amalgamation of toponomy, history, mythology and political studies within a geographical expression. This volume addresses questions on the status and value of place names, their interpretation and classification. It brings to the fore the connections between place names and the cultural, geographical and historical significations they are associated with. This will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of geography, law, politics, history and sociology, and will also be of interest to policy-makers, administrators and the common reader interested in India.
Author : Lisa Tanya Brooks
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 12,66 MB
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300196733
"With rigorous original scholarship and creative narration, Lisa Brooks recovers a complex picture of war, captivity, and Native resistance during the "First Indian War" (later named King Philip's War) by relaying the stories of Weetamoo, a female Wampanoag leader, and James Printer, a Nipmuc scholar, whose stories converge in the captivity of Mary Rowlandson. Through both a narrow focus on Weetamoo, Printer, and their network of relations, and a far broader scope that includes vast Indigenous geographies, Brooks leads us to a new understanding of the history of colonial New England and of American origins. In reading seventeenth-century sources alongside an analysis of the landscape and interpretations informed by tribal history, Brooks's pathbreaking scholarship is grounded not just in extensive archival research but also in the land and communities of Native New England."--Jacket flap.
Author : Virgil J. Vogel
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 26,52 MB
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472063659
"Indian Names in Michigan traces the origin of hundreds of place-names given to counties, towns, lakes, rivers, and topographical features of the Great Lakes State. These melodic names that enrich our appreciation for the romantic past of our state record the culture and history of both the American Indian and the white settler. Most of the Indian names borne by Michigan's cities, counties, lakes, and rivers are those of Indian tribes and individuals. Settlers named places not only fro the resident tribes, but also for tribes in the West that they had never seen. Indian Names in Michigan is written for all local history enthusiasts and anyone interested in Indian history and culture"--Back cover.
Author : Frank Waabu O'Brien
Publisher :
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 12,71 MB
Release : 2010-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780982046760
In New England, American Indian people have left their ancient footprints in many of the current names for mountains, rivers, lakes, animals, fish, cities, towns, and byways. The first English settlers, who put most of the American Indian words on the map, borrowed names from local tribes. In the process, they often misheard, mispronounced, or misreported what they heard - that is how the place Wequapaugset was given as Boxet or how Musquompskut became Swampscott. In many cases the Indian terms have changed so much over time that linguists are unable to recognize the original spelling and meaning. Others have tried their hand at translations, and have come up with fanciful interpretations that are incorrect, but that have stood the test of time. On the East Coast, the Native cultures and their Algonquian tongues had long faded before most scholarly studies began, so a great many translations of place names often represent a scholar's best guess. In this landmark volume, Dr. Frank Waabu O'Brien of the Aquidneck Indian Council, provides the first indigenous method and process for interpreting regional American Indian place names. Included is a dictionary of the most common misspellings, along with numerous examples of the Indian place names for Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Connecticut. Based on years of research, Understanding Indian Place Names is a landmark publication.