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Abnoki
- A nation of 20 Indian Tribes in early Maine history.
Advirondacks - Mountains of N.E. New York.
Alabama
- "Thicket Clearers", a State and a Tribe - Texas.
Alaska
- "Great Big Land", our 49th State.
Aleut
- Indians of Alaska and Aleutian Islands.
Allegheny - "Fairest River", with Monongohela River forms Ohio River at Pittsburgh, PA.
Algonquin - A language, stock name of my tribes of the N.E.U.S., usually allies of the French.
Apache
- "Elk horn fiddlers", a fierce tribe of AZ and NM.
Apalahicola - A FL tribe, part of the Seminoles.
Appalachia - Appalachia Indians in Eastern U.S.
Appomattox - "Tobacco Country", Virgina City Va., Lee surrendered here.
Apropaho
- "Mother of Tribes", tribe of Wyoming & Oklahoma.
Arizona
- "Little Spring Place", our 48th State.
Arkansas
- "South Wind People", our 25th State.
Aroostook - "Good River", a river in Maine.
Assiniboine - Tribe in Montana & Canada, River in Saskatchewan.
Aubbeenoubbee - "Looking Backward", Potawatomi chief, Indian.
Au-taw-ataw - Miami Chief, Grant County, Indiana.
Aztec
- Early Indians of Mexico. Conquered by Cortez in 1520.
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Blackfeet - Indian tribe and reservation in Montana.
Black Hawk - "Ma-ka-ta-mi-ci-kiah kiak", black sparrow, Hawk: an Illinois Sauk Chief who
resisted Americans, 1831-1832.
Black Loon - "Makahlamongwah", Miami Chief, son of Little Turtle.
Blue Jacket - Shawnee Chief who fought at Tippicanoe and Fallen Timbers, Ohio.
Buchongahelas - "Breaker To Pieces", Delaware Chief who fought at Fallen Timbers, Ohio.
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Caddo
Cahokia
Charley
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Eel River
Flat Belly
Geronimo
Gnadenhutten
Haiti
Hiawatha
Hopi
Huntington
Hurons
Idaho
Illinois
Joseph Chief
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Kaibab
Kalamazoo
Kalispel
Kanawbra
Kankakee
Kansas
Kaskaskia
Katahdin
Kayak
Lackawanna
Mackinac
- "Turtle Island" in Mi.
Ma-con-a-quah
- Also Muk-kuns-kwa, "Little Bear Woman", Miami
name for France Slocum 1774-1847, as a
captive lived with Indians 69 years.
Majinica
- "Big Body", name of Miami Chief who lived in
Huntington County, Indiana who contested
Francis Godfroy in the naming of the Chief of
the Miami's. Name of town and creeks in
county.
Manhattan
- Manahala,Menatey, "Island", main part of NY
City.
Manitou
- "Spirit", Kiji Manitou means "God", the Good
Spirit. Potawatomi words.
Mankato
- "Green Earth", the name of a town in
Minnesota.
Massachusetts
- "Large Hill Place", settled in 1620, 6th
state.
Massaqua
- A rattle snake.
Massasoit
- Wampamoag Indian Chief who attended the
Pilgrim's Thanksgiving.
Maumee
- "Standing Rocks", a river flowing into Lake
Erie.
Maxinbuckee
- "Big Stone County", an Indiana Lake.
Mayas
- Early Indians of Yucatan with high culture.
Menominee
- "Wild Rice Eaters", a Potawatoms tribe and
Chief of Northern Indiana, moved west by
government, 1838, "River Of Death".
Merrimac
- "Swift River", river of New England.
Me-shin-go-me-sia - "Large Leaf Burr Oak", Chief of last village
Indiana.
Muchkatahmoway
- Potawatomi Chief of Indiana who signed
Greenville Treaty.
Mugwump
- One who acts independently, 1884, Mugwump
Republicans.
Muncie
- "People On The Stony Country", city in Indiana,
Delaware Co.
Munsee
- A tribal division of the Delawares, NY,
Delaware, Pennsylvania, OK.
Muskabuck
- See'Mesquabuck.
Muscotaluck
- "Drift Wood In Water", a park in Indiana.
Musky
- "A Swampy Marsh".
Muskegon
- "Plenty Of Fish", a city in MI.
Mukelange
- "The Great Pike", a lake in Indiana.
Muskingum
- "Moose Eye River", a city in OH.
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Nantucket
Ocelot
- A cat-like S.American animal.
O-gi-maw-kee
- Mit-i-gwa-ki, "Queen Of The Woods", the name
Simon Pokagon gave to his wife Lonidaw in his
autobiography bearing that name, she drowned
trying to save her young daughter.
Oglaba
- A tribe of Sioux, one chief was "Sitting
Bull".
Ohio
- "Beautiful River", an Iroquois word, river, and
our 17th state.
Ojibwa
- "Those Who Draw Pictures", same as Chippewa.
Okeechobee
- "Grassy Lake, a lake in FL, north of
Everglades, also a town on this lake.
Oklahoma
- "Land of Red Man", name given our 46th state by
Choctaw Chief Allen Wright in 1866 in the
treaty of that year.
Omaha
- "Upstream", a city in Nebraska.
Ontario
- "Beautiful hills, rocks, rivers", Wyandotte was
a great lake and a province of Canada.
Oregon
- "Beautiful Water", our 33rd state.
Osage
- "The Neutral", a tribe of the plains, an Indian
village in Indiana where an Indian treaty was
signed and where Tecumeh tried to form a large
confederacy. Near Peru Indian on the
Mississinewa.
Osceola
- "Medicine Drink", Chief of the Seminoles, town
in IN.
Oshkosh
- "Claw Marking Or Scratches", a city in
Wisconsin.
Oswego
- "Flowing Out", lake and town in each NY and
Indiana.
Ottawa
- "Traders", a tribe in MI and Canada, capital of
Canada.
Ouiatanon
- "Place Of An Eddy In River", Miami town on the
Wabash.
Ozandia
- A Miami Chief, father of Metocinyah, signed
treaties, OH.
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Paiute
- A tribe of Nevada and Colorado.
Papakeechee
- "Flat Belly", brother of Wawasee, N. Indiana,
Lake, Miami.
Patoka
- "How Deep", a Fox Chief of IL.
Pagago
- A tribe in New Mexico
Passaic
- "Peaceful Valley", a river in NJ.
Passamaquoddy
- A tribe and bay in Maine.
Paune
- "Horn People", a tribe in West, Kansas &
Nebraska.
Pemmican
- Dried meat pounded into a paste and mixed with
meal.
Penn's Treaty
- 1682, treaty made with Indians by William Penn
on a site now in Philadelphia, Never broken.
Penobscot
- "Rocky River", a tribe and longest river of
Maine.
Pensacola
- "Hairy People", a tribe and city of FL.
Peoria
- "Place Of Fat Beasts", a tribe and city in IL.
Pequot
- An early tribe in eastern Connecticut, name of
war in 1637 in which they were wiped out.
Peru
- The Miami word means "A Straight Place In The
River", a city in Indiana, county seat of
Miami County.
Peshewa
- "Wild Cat", name for Miami Chief, Richard
Ville.
Petosky
- Indian family name which a city in MI bears.
Phillip King
- Wampananoag son of Massasoit who waged war and
was defeated by Massachusetts colonists,
1675-1677.
Piankeshaw
- "Those Who Formed A Tribe", a tribe of Miami,
Indiana.
Pima
- A tribe of Az.
Piqua
- "Ashes", a city of OH.
Pocahontas
- "Shield", daughter of Powhaton, married John
Rolfe, saved life of Captain John Smith in
Vas, died in 1614 in England.
Pokagon
- "Shield", Leopold, a Potawatomi Chief who sold
the land on which Chicago stands to the white
man, father of Simon Prokagon. A state park
named after him in Indiana.
Pokagon
- "Shield", Simon, son of Leopold lived in N.
Dakota and S. Michigan, wrote autobiography,
see Ogimawkwa Mitigwaki, spoke at the 1893
Chicago World Fair, (Picture on book jacket).
Ponca
- "Scared Head", a tribe in the Dakotas and OK.
Pontiac
- An Ottawa Indian who formed an unsuccessful
"conspiracy" in 1761-1763, killed at Cohakia,
IL in 1796.
Potawatomi
- "Maker's Of The Fire", tribe in Canada, MI and
Indiana.
Potlatch
- A festival and distribution of gifts, a
feast.
Potomac
Quapaw
Richardville,
Jean Baptiste
Sacagowea
Shoshone
Silver Heels
Sioux
Sitting Bull
South Bend
Teepee
Toltecs
Tomahawk
Tomochichi
Tonawanda
Topeak
Topeaka
Topinebee
Toronto
Tranois
Tuscon
Tupelo
Tuscaloosa
Tuscarora
Tuscarawas
Tuskegee
Tutelo
Tuxedo
Twightwees
Unalachtigo
Umatilla
Umtak
Umpqua
Unami
Uncas
Utah
Ute
Venango
Vermillion
Wasbash
River in Oregon.
Washakie
- "Shoot The Buffalo Running", 1804-1900 a
Shoshoni Chief who was a friend and
negotiator for his people with the Americans.
Watauga
- A Cherokee name used in the name of a town
and a county in TN.
Waupecong
- "White Bones", a town in Indiana.
Wawasee
- "Full Moon", a leading Chief of the Miamis in
Indiana, signed many treaties, lived first on
Lake Wawhee and then with his brother,
Papakeechee on what came to be know as Lake
Wawasee.
Waxham
- A tribe of the Carolinas, practiced head
flattening.
Wea
- "Bend of The Stream" Tribe of Miami Confedercy
Indian Ohio.
Weatherford, William- Creek leader who lost to Jackson in Creek
War.
Weiser, Conrad
- A noted agent for the colonists and
ambassador for the Indians of Pennsylvania
and NY, lived from 1696-176?, came to America
as an immigrant in 1710, married Ann Eve Fick
in 1720, had fourteen children, one of whom
Anna Maria, married Henry Melchior
Muhlenberg. The Indians called Weiser
"Torachiawagon", he who holds the heavens.
Wenatchee
- "River Coming Out Of A Canyon", a river, lake
and city of the state of Washington.
Wesaro
- "Animal, Gallbladder", a Miami Chief in
Indiana.
White River
- Wapihani, Miami for white waters, a river in
Indiana.
Wichita
- "A Big Arbor", a tribe in OK on TX mountains
in OK, a river and city in Kansas bear the
name.
Wickiup
- A brush shelter form of a house.
Wigwam
- An Abnaki word for a dwelling made from bark,
saplings or brush.
Willamette
- "Running Water", a river in Oregon.
Winamac
- "Cat Fish", a Potawatomi Chief, friend of the
Whites, visited Washington, died in 1821,
earlier Winamac fought with Tecumseh and
claimed to have caused the massacre at Fort
Dearborn.
Winnebago
- "People Of The Stinking Water", a tribe in WI.
Winnipeaukee
- A tribe, river and lake in N. Hampshire.
Winona
Wisconsin
Wissahickon
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Yakima
Yalobusha
in
Mississippi.
Yamasee
- A Muskegean tribe along the coast of Florida
and Georgia.
Yankton
- "At The End", one of seven, divisions of the
Sioux.
Yaqui
- "Chief River", a tribe of Northern Mexico.
Yozoo
- A river and an extinct tribe of Mississippi.
Yellow River
- Welhamamik, Potawatomi word for "Yellow
Yokut
- A name of a Mariposa band of Indians.
Yosemite
- "Grizzly Bear", a valley, falls and park in
CA.
Yucca
Yukon
Yuma
Yurok
Zapotecs
Zuni