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Kissimmee – Disputed meaning, perhaps derived from Ais word "Cacema" meaning "long water". [43] 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.
Uchee – named after the Yuchi people, whose name roughly translates to mean "sitting at a distance". [36] Shared with the Uchee Creek. Wedowee - a given name, meaning "old water" given by a muscogean chief [37] Weogufka - from Creek wi, “water”, plus ogufki, “muddy” also Creek Indian for the Mississippi. [38]
Awanyu painted by Fred Kabotie at Desert View Watchtower. Avanyu or Awanyu is a Tewa deity, the guardian of water. Represented as a horned or plumed serpent with curves suggestive of flowing water or the zig-zag of lightning, Awanyu appears on the walls of caves located high above canyon rivers in New Mexico and Arizona.
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.
Many places throughout the U.S. state of California take their names from the languages of the indigenous Native American/American Indian tribes. The following list includes settlements, geographic features, and political subdivisions whose names are derived from these indigenous languages.
Miami - named for the Miami, a Native American people, many of whom still live in this area. [28] Miami County, Indiana; Great Miami River; Michigan, borrowed via French from names meaning "great water" in one or more Algonquian languages, likely with particularly heavy influence from Old Potawatomi *mesigam. [29] Lake Michigan; Michigan Road
The current name, Okeechobee, is derived from the Hitchiti word meaning "big water". [2] The Mayaimis have no linguistic or cultural relationship with the Miami people of the Great Lakes region. [1] The city of Miami is named after the Miami River, which derived its name from Lake Mayaimi. [2]
Native American Placenames of the United States. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 080613576X. Campbell, Lyle (1997). American Indian Languages: The Historical Linguistics of Native America. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195094271