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List of placenames of indigenous origin in the Americas; List of federally recognized tribes by state: As of May 2013, there were 566 Native American tribes legally recognized by the U.S. Government, according to the article, "List of federally recognized tribes." Native Americans in the United States
The following is a partial list of United States of America (U.S.) communities with Native-American majority populations. It includes United States cities and towns in which a majority (over half) of the population is Native American (American Indian or Alaska Native), according to data from the 2020 Census.
Gananoque: Origin unknown, thought to be derived from Native languages for "place of health" or "meeting place" or "water running over rocks." Garafraxa: Possibly derived from the word for "panther country". Iroquois Falls: Named for the Iroquois people of Ontario. Kakabeka Falls: From the Ojibwe word gakaabikaa, "waterfall over a cliff".
Flags of Wisconsin tribes in the Wisconsin state capitol. Federally recognized tribes are those Native American tribes recognized by the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs as holding a government-to-government relationship with the US federal government. [4] For Alaska Native tribes, see list of Alaska Native tribal entities.
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.
Native American Place Names of the United States. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. Hartford Courant (editors?) (1999). "Ask the Courant: Where are the beginnings of four shoreline rivers, the Hammonasset, Menunketesuck, Patchogue and Indian rivers, and how did they come by their names?", Huden, John C. (1962).
Mobile County – named after a Native American tribe, perhaps from Choctaw moeli, meaning "to row" or "to paddle". [12] Shared with the city of Mobile, the Mobile Bay and the Mobile River. Talladega County – derived from the Muscogee phrase italua atigi, meaning "town on the border". [13] Shared with the cities of Talladega and Talladega ...
The primary Native American languages in Michigan are Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi, all of which are dialects of Algonquin. Some other places names in Michigan are found to be derived from Sauk , Oneida , Wyandot , Abenaki , Shawnee , Mohawk , Seneca , Seminole , Iroquois , and Delaware , although many of these tribes are not found in Michigan.