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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 ...
A tribal name is a name of an ethnic tribe —usually of ancient origin, which represented its self-identity. Studies of Native American tribal names show that most had an original meaning comparable to " human ," "people" "us"—the "tribal" name for itself was often the localized ethnic self-perception of the general word for "human being."
^ This name is the main name used in Norman Tindale's Catalogue of Australian Aboriginal Tribes. [7] Each has a separate article under the name listed there, and alternative names are also listed. In most cases (but not all) the name in the left column "Group name" is also the main name used by Tindale.
The islands north of the Saint Kitts 'borderline' had Arawak names while the islands south of it had Kalinago names. The island of Barbados was uninhabited at the point of European arrival, but evidence suggests that Barbados followed the same pattern of displacement as witnessed on neighbouring islands, but that it was abandoned for unknown ...
Bashi – from the Choctaw phrase bachaya, meaning "line" or "row". Bogue Chitto – from the Choctaw phrase book chito, meaning "big creek". [16] Boligee – from the Choctaw phrase boolitusha, meaning "to strike and cut into pieces". [17] Cahaba – from the Choctaw phrase oka-uba, meaning "water from above". [18] Shared with the Cahaba River.
Most of Michigan's Native American-derived place names come from the languages spoken in these groups. Many places throughout the state of Michigan take their names from Native American indigenous languages. This list includes counties, townships, and settlements whose names are derived from indigenous languages in Michigan.
Gangani (Llŷn Peninsula, Wales) - A tribe of the same name, the Gangani (Ganganoi), lived in Hibernia's southwestern coast, they could have been two branches of the same tribe, two related tribes with common ancestors or two different tribes that shared similar names. A tribe of similar name, the Gongani or Concani, was a tribe of the Cantabri ...
Romans referred to the indigenous tribes of Mauretania as Mauri, or "Moors." [13] [19] [39] Indigenous North African tribes, along with other populations, were referred to as "Moors" by medieval Europeans. [40] The historical interchangeability between "Berbers" and "Moors" is a subject of academic inquiry. [19]