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Okeechobee County – from the Hitchiti words oki (water) and chobi (big), a reference to Lake Okeechobee, the largest lake in Florida. Osceola County – named after Osceola, the Native American leader who led the Second Seminole War. Sarasota County. Seminole County – named after the Seminole Native American tribe.
Lake Bemidji. Bena – from Ojibwe bine: grouse or partridge [73] Chanhassen – Dakota for "sugar maple" [74] Chaska – named for the founding business Shaska Company, which takes its name from the given name for a first born son in Dakota Chaska[75] Chengwatana – from Ojibwe Zhingwaadena: "Pine-town". Chokio. Cohasset.
Indian Place Names of New England, Museum of the American Indian Heye Foundation; O'Brien, Frank Waabu (2010). Understanding Indian Place Names in Southern New England. Colorado: Bauu Press. Trumbull, James H. (1881). Indian Names of Places, etc., in and on the Borders of Connecticut: With Interpretations of Some of Them.
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.
Fort Erie: Iroquoian, erige, meaning "cat". 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.
Aboriginal place names of New York. New York State Education Department, New York State Museum. Bright, William (2004). Native American Place Names of the United States. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. Campbell, Lyle (1997). American Indian Languages: The Historical Linguistics of Native America. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Mount Tehama. Tuolumne County – disputed origin; likely from the phrase talmalamne of unknown origin, meaning "cluster of stone wigwams ". Tuolumne City. Tuolumne River. Tuolumne Grove. Tuolumne Meadows. Grand Canyon of the Tuolumne. Yolo County – from the Patwin phrase yo-loy, meaning "a place abounding in rushes". Village of Yolo.
Conakry: According to a legend, the name of the city comes from the fusion of the name "Cona", a wine and cheese producer of the Baga people, and the word "nakiri", which means in Sosso the other bank or side. Saint Louis, Senegal (1849–1891): Named after a saint of the same name. The city's Wolof name is Ndar.