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Question

i would like a list of a few places in the United States with Indian names, and what the meanings are. Can you please help me?

Answer 1

Absolutly...
I'm not sure if you want city, state etc....
Alabama = Choctaw meaning “thicket-clearers” or “vegetation-gatherers”

Alaska =Corruption of Aleut word meaning “great land” or “that which the sea breaks against”

Connecticut =Native word (Quinnehtukqut) meaning “beside the long tidal river”

Illinois =Algonquin for “tribe of superior men”

Indiana= Meaning “land of Indians”

Iowa = from an Indian word meaning “this is the place” or “the Beautiful Land”

Kansas= From a Sioux word meaning “people of the south wind”

Kentucky =From an Iroquoian word “Ken-tah-ten”
meaning “land of tomorrow”

Minnesota =From a Dakota Indian word meaning “sky-tinted water”

Mississippi =From an Native word meaning “Father of Waters”

Missouri =Named after the Missouri Indian tribe. “Missouri” means “town of the large canoes.”

Nebraska =From an Oto word meaning “flat water”

North Dakota= From the Sioux tribe, meaning “allies” or"friend"

Ohio =From an Iroquoian word meaning “great river”

Oklahoma =From two Choctaw Indian words meaning “red people”

Tennessee =Of Cherokee origin; the exact meaning is unknown

Texas =From an Native word meaning “friends”

Utah= From the Ute tribe, meaning “people of the mountains”

Wisconsin =French corruption of an Indian word whose meaning is disputed

Wyoming =From the Delaware Indian word, meaning “mountains and valleys alternating”; the same as the Wyoming Valley in Pennsylvania

Answer 2

There's one near where I work--Naugatuck (properly "nuquttuq" if you're using modern Mohegan.) The actual translation is "a place where a single item in a set stands," but for some reason people here say it means "lone tree by the fishing hole."

Back in Tennessee, there was Egwani (from "equoni," our Cherokee word for "river," this was a resort area.) Then there's Etowah (Cherokee pronunciation of Mvskoke "tvlwv," meaning "town,") I could go on forever.

The name "Tennessee" is actually "Tlanusiyi" in Cherokee, and it literally means "Leech place," after towns along the river. The name was so common it stuck to both the river and the state.

Answer 3

Indiana means Land of the Indians. for many listings of answers to your question google " Native American Place Names " and there will be plenty of web sites and information for you to explore.

Answer 4

Akwesasne New York - Land Where the Patridge Drum.
Onondaga..... just look at the reservation names.

Answer 5

Schenectady means "land beyond the pines"
Poughkeepsie means "little village on the river"