Book Description
Typescript lists of place names in alphabetical order, one list for each state. Includes citations for the sources where the place names were found.
Author : William B. Cabot
Publisher :
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 11,30 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Names, Indian
ISBN :
Typescript lists of place names in alphabetical order, one list for each state. Includes citations for the sources where the place names were found.
Author : R. A. Douglas-Lithgow
Publisher : Applewood Books
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 45,38 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 1557095418
This dictionary of Native American places was originally published in 1909. Alphabetically arranged by Native American name, this reference work gives insight into the Native origins of Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont cities, towns, rivers, streams, lakes, and other locales. The Abanki confederacy of tribes of northern New England gets their name from the word Wabunaki meaning "land or country of the east" or "morning land."
Author : Frank Waabu O'Brien
Publisher :
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 13,22 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.
Author : R. A. Douglas-Lithgow
Publisher : Applewood Books
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 47,47 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Names, Geographical
ISBN : 1557095434
This dictionary of Native American places was originally published in 1909. Alphabetically arranged by Native American name, this reference work gives insight into the Native origins of Rhode Island cities, towns, rivers, streams, lakes, and other locales. What was the Narragansett territory is closely aligned with the current boundaries of the state of Rhode Island. The significance of the word Narragansett is "at the little point'" or "island."
Author : R. A. Douglas-Lithgow
Publisher : Applewood Books
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 18,62 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 155709540X
This dictionary of Native American places was originally published in 1909. Alphabetically arranged by Native American name, this reference work gives insight into the Native origins of Connecticut cities, towns, rivers, streams, lakes, and other locales. The Pequots and Mohegans formed the majority of Connecticut Natives, occupying the territory from Narraganset to the Hudson River, along the Connecticut shore, and including Long Island. The Mystic River gets its name from Mistick meaning ""great tidal river.""
Author : R. A. Douglas-Lithgow
Publisher : Applewood Books
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 15,22 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Massachusetts
ISBN : 1557095426
This dictionary of Native American places was originally published in 1909. Alphabetically arranged by Native American name, this reference work gives insight into the Native origins of Massachusetts cities, towns, rivers, streams, lakes, and other locales. The current state of Massachusetts retains the name of the once inhabiting tribe, although its people were decimated by illness and disorganized by warfare around 1617. Massachusetts is a word meaning ""a hill in the form of an arrow-head.""
Author : Robert Alexander Douglas-Lithgow
Publisher :
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 14,35 MB
Release : 1909
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Douglas Lithgow
Publisher : Digital Scanning Inc
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 30,9 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 : Lorraine (Rainwaters) Henry
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,27 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780788408960
Tribes mentioned in this book are Aquinah, Brothertown (Munsee), Dartmouth, Deep Bottom, Dudley, Hassanamisco (Chritian Indians), Herring Pond (Christian Indians), Mashpee (Massachusetts), Massachusetts, Mohean, Narragansetts (Narrogunset) Natick (Massachusetts), Nipmunk (Nipmuc) Passmaquoddy, Pequot, Punkapog, Troy (Pocassit), Tunxis, Wamesit, Wampanog and Yarmouth Indians.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 21,52 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN :