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Many places throughout the United States 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 languages.
The Municipality and Borough of Skagway – from the Tlingit phrase sha-ka-géi, meaning "a windy place with white caps on the water". The City and Borough of Yakutat – from the Tlingit phrase yaakwdáat, meaning "the place where canoes rest". Shared with the neighboring Yakutat Bay.
Pages in category "Tennessee placenames of Native American origin" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Eva site (40BN12) is a prehistoric Native American site in Benton County, Tennessee, in the Southeastern United States. Located along an ancient channel of the Tennessee River, the Eva site saw extensive periods of occupation during the Middle and Late Archaic period (c. 6000-1000 BC). The site's well-defined midden layers helped ...
This list of Alaska Native tribal entities names the federally recognized tribes in the state of Alaska. The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 explains how these Alaska Native villages came to be tracked this way. This version was updated based on Federal Register, Volume 87, dated January 28, 2022 (87 FR 4638), [1] when the number of ...
Location of Williamson County in Tennessee. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Williamson County, Tennessee. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Williamson County, Tennessee, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are ...
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. Those listed here are only well-known, important or otherwise ...
It was a communal meeting place for people in the town, and the place where they received outsiders. In 1761-62, Henry Timberlake visited the Overhill towns as a British envoy during a peace tour following the Anglo-Cherokee War. He made a map showing a townhouse and 22 dwellings (15 on the east bank and 7 on the west bank) at Tallassee.