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Dr. Alexander Wolcott, Jr. (1790-1830), first physician in Chicago, trader, served as Chicago's US Indian Agent from the late 1810s through the late 1820s. Until 1939, the road was Lincoln Street. Wrightwood Avenue: Edward Wright, a subdivider and an attorney [17] Wrigleyville: Named for Wrigley Field, in turn named for William Wrigley, Jr. [5]
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
Chicago – for the Miami-Illinois word Shikaakwa, wild leek. City of Chicago Heights; Village of Chicago Ridge; Chicago River; Chillicothe – comes from the name of the Chalagawtha sept of the Shawnee nation Chillicothe Township; Colusa; Dakota. Dakota Township; Erie – named after Erie County, New York which in turn was named after Lake ...
At its first appearance in records by explorers, the Chicago area was inhabited by a number of Algonquian peoples, including the Mascouten and Miami.The name "Chicago" is generally believed to derive from a French rendering of the Miami–Illinois language word šikaakwa, referring to the plant Allium tricoccum, as well as the animal skunk. [3]
Other place-names are hybrids of Celtic and Anglo-Saxon elements. There is a high level of personal names within the place names, presumably the names of local landowners at the time of naming. In the north and east, there are many place names of Norse origin; similarly, these contain many personal names.
Canada itself is a name derived from a Laurentian Iroquois word meaning "village" [1] [2] (c.f. Mohawk kaná:ta’). [3] [4] See Canada's name for more details.Aboriginal names are widespread in Canada - for a full listing see List of place names in Canada of aboriginal origin.
There is a movement to remove the name "squaw" from geographic place names across the United States. [76] There is a minority counter-movement among a small number of academics to "reclaim" what they claim is the possible original meaning of the word, as an in-group term, which could still be offensive if used outside of that speech community.
Illinois placenames of Native American origin (8 P) M. Middle Mississippian culture (1 C, 68 P) Mounds in Illinois (1 C, 38 P) N. ... Chicago Indian Village; Agapit ...