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The following list includes settlements, geographic features, and political subdivisions whose names are derived from these indigenous languages. The primary Native American peoples present in Alabama during historical times included the Alibamu, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Koasati, and the lower and upper Muscogee (Creeks). [1]
Pages in category "Alabama placenames of Native American origin" The following 142 pages are in this category, out of 142 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Pages in category "Native American history of Alabama" The following 62 pages are in this category, out of 62 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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The Alabama or Alibamu (Alabama: Albaamaha) are a Southeastern culture people of Native Americans, originally from Alabama. They were members of the Muscogee Creek Confederacy , a loose trade and military organization of autonomous towns; their home lands were on the upper Alabama River .
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Alabama – named for the Alibamu, a tribe whose name derives from a Choctaw phrase meaning "thicket-clearers" [1] or "plant-cutters" (from albah, "(medicinal) plants", and amo, "to clear"). [ 2 ] Alaska – from the Aleut phrase alaxsxaq , meaning "the object towards which the action of the sea is directed").
Meaning and notes American Samoa: 1911 [111] [note 1] (July 17) English and Samoan: American + Sāmoa: The CIA World Factbook says "The name Samoa is composed of two parts, 'sa', meaning sacred, and 'moa', meaning center, so the name can mean Holy Center; alternately, it can mean 'place of the sacred moa bird' of Polynesian mythology."