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Pages in category "Lists of English words of Indian origin" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Etymology of Selected Words of Indian Language Origin Archived 2014-02-20 at the Wayback Machine in Colonial & Postcolonial Literary Dialogues
It does not cover names of ethnic groups or place names derived from Indigenous languages. Most words of Native American/First Nations language origin are the common names for indigenous flora and fauna, or describe items of Native American or First Nations life and culture. Some few are names applied in honor of Native Americans or First ...
Anoka - A Dakota Indian word meaning "on both sides." Arapahoe; Hyannis - Named after Hyannis, Massachusetts, which was named after Iyannough, a sachem of the Cummaquid tribe. [51] Iowa; Kenesaw; Leshara - Named after Chief Petalesharo. Mankato - Mankota is from the Dakota Indian word Maḳaṭo, meaning "blue earth".
This list also includes names of ultimate Native American origin even if they were not used by Native Americans as place names in Indiana, such as Osceola and Wanatah, which were named by white settlers in honor of Seminole and Dakota leaders respectively. The name of Indiana means 'land of the Indians' or "Indian Land." [1]
List of foreign politicians of Indian origin, Indian diaspora's influence on policy making of other nations British colonial era diaspora Coolies , Girmityas , and Indian indentured labourers , such as Indian South Africans , Malaysian Indians , Indo-Caribbeans , Indo-Fijians , Mauritians of Indian origin , Indian diaspora in Southeast Africa ...
Natural history in the Indian subcontinent has a long heritage with a recorded history going back to the Vedic era. Natural history research in early times included the broad fields of palaeontology, zoology and botany. These studies would today be considered under field of ecology but in former times, such research was undertaken mainly by ...
Indian-origin religions Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, and Sikhism, [4] are all based on the concepts of dharma and karma. Ahimsa, the philosophy of nonviolence, is an important aspect of native Indian faiths whose most well-known proponent was Shri Mahatma Gandhi, who used civil disobedience to unite India during the Indian independence movement – this philosophy further inspired Martin ...