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The preference of hogan construction and use is still very popular among the Navajos, although the use of it as a home shelter dwindled through the 1900s, due mainly to the requirement by many Navajos to acquire homes built through government and lender funding – which largely ignored the hogan and traditional styles – in preference for HUD-standardized construction.
Wisconsin – originally "Mescousing", from an Algonquian language, though the source and meaning is not entirely clear; most likely from the Miami word Meskonsing meaning "it lies red" [31] [32] (c.f. Ojibwe miskosin). [18] Wyoming – from the Munsee Delaware phrase xwé:wamənk, meaning "at the big river flat". [33]
Wanąǧi is attested in other Wisconsin place names as well: Wanąǧi Homįk ("where the spirit lies" or "cemetery") is the Hocąk name for Reesburg, WI. Waupaca; Waupun (meaning "east, daybreak, dawn") Wausau (from Chippewa, meaning "far away") Wausaukee; Wautoma; Wauwatosa; Weyauwega; Winneboujou; Winneconne; Wisconsin Rapids; Wonewoc ...
Name in English Name in Navajo County Population [1]; Alamo: Tʼiistoh Socorro, NM: 1,150 Aneth: Tʼáá Bííchʼį́įdii San Juan, UT: 598 Beclabito: Bitłʼááh Bitoʼ
Wisconsin Rapids is a city in and the county seat of Wood County, Wisconsin, United States, along the Wisconsin River. [6] The population was 18,877 at the 2020 census. [4] It is a principal city of the Marshfield–Wisconsin Rapids micropolitan statistical area, which includes all of Wood County and had a population of 74,207 in 2020.
Powers Bluff is a wooded hill in central Wisconsin near Arpin.American Indians lived there until the 1930s, calling it Tah-qua-kik, or Skunk Hill.Because of their religious and ceremonial activities, Tah-qua-kik is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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November 4, 1993 (Roughly, Central Ave. from Depot St. to Third St. Marshfield: Includes many old brick businesses like the Thomas House Hotel built after the fire of 1887, the Romanesque Revival old city hall built in 1901, the Craftsman-styled Wisconsin Central depot built in 1910, and the eclectic-styled Hotel Charles built in 1925, which hosted JFK, Patsy Cline, and possibly John Dillinger.