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The name "Wyoming" comes from a Delaware Tribe word Mechaweami-ing or "maughwauwa-ma", meaning large plains or extensive meadows, which was the tribe's name for a valley in northern Pennsylvania. The name Wyoming was first proposed for use in the American West by Senator Ashley of Ohio in 1865 in a bill to create a temporary government for ...
His name is believed to come from the Cherokee word siqua meaning "hog". Historian John B. Davis says the name may have been derived from sikwa (either a hog or an opossum) and vi meaning "place, enclosure". [7] This is a reference either to his childhood deformity or to a later injury that left Sequoyah disabled.
A Cherokee-language name for Cherokee people is Aniyvwiya (ᎠᏂᏴᏫᏯ, translating as ' Principal People '). [16] Another endonym is Anigiduwagi (ᎠᏂᎩᏚᏩᎩ, translating as ' People from Kituwah '). [17] Tsalagi Gawonihisdi (ᏣᎳᎩ ᎦᏬᏂᎯᏍᏗ) is the Cherokee name for the Cherokee language. [18] [19]
Map showing the source languages/language families of state names. The fifty U.S. states, the District of Columbia, the five inhabited U.S. territories, and the U.S. Minor Outlying Islands have taken their names from a wide variety of languages. The names of 24 states derive from indigenous languages of the Americas and one from Hawaiian.
Following lobbying from the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, the U.S. Board of Geographic Names unanimously voted Sept. 18 to restore Kuwohi as the mountain’s name.
Eagle Medicine Band of Cherokee Indians, also in Pennsylvania [117] New Jersey Sand Hill Band of Indians (also known as Sand Hill Band of Lenape and Cherokee Indians or Sand Hill Band of Indians). [26] [46] Letter of Intent to Petition 01/09/2007. [27] Osprey Band of Free Cherokees [25] [30] [31] [32] [46] Powhatan Renape Nation, Rancocas, NJ ...
Name derived from the Choctaw language purported to mean "creek where the panther was killed". Sea Warrior Creek, creek in Choctaw County. "Sea Warrior" is the result of a name corrupted from the Choctaw language (Isawaya [44]) purported to mean "crouching deer". Sepulga River - possibly from the Muscogee svwokle, a tribal town. [45]
There are three federally recognized Cherokee tribes: the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (ECBI) in North Carolina, the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians (UKB) in Oklahoma, and the Cherokee Nation (CN) in Oklahoma. [5] Enrollment criteria are different for each nation. Eastern Band citizenship requirements are as follows: "1.