No less than 27 out of the 50 states\' Names in the USA are based in American Indian languages.
This book helps paint a relational picture of the cultural world of the Anishinaabe Three Fires Confederacy of Ojibway, Odawa, and Potawatomi and how that view has b.
Phil Bellfy takes us on an etymological journey around the Great Lakes region as he explains the possible Origins and meanings of Native American Place names.
In this Indians and Other Misnomers of the Upper Great Lakes, Dr. --Karl Hele, Anishinaabeg and the Davidson Chair in Canadian Studies, Mount Allison University Words carry meaning and history.
It is a must-own companion book for researchers, residents and anyone interested in the places, history and linguistic heritages of the Great Lakes.
This book offers readers the opportunity to contemplate their Place within the landscape of the Indigenous homelands now claimed by the Canadian and American settler states.
Indians and Other Misnomers of the Upper Great Lakes is a fascinating exploration of the Indigenous Origins of many Place Names bordering the Great Lakes.
McNab, professor emeritus, York University, Toronto, Ontario.
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Indians and Other Misnomers of the Upper Great Lakes will be in the forefront of changing the way in which Indigenous knowledge shapes the hitherto colonial narrative of the Great Lakes.
In the appendices, you\'ll discover details of US and Canadian treaties with Indigenous people, and many that are still under dispute today Emeritus Professor Phil Bellfy has used his life-long Indigenous knowledge to produce this imaginative, original work that will be indispensable to any researcher working on Indigenous studies in the Great Lakes watershed.
Alternately, you can peruse an alphabetical concordance of every Place name.
Join us on this journey through Michigan, Pennsylvania, Ontario, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Minnesota as we alphabetically traverse Indigenous Place Names in each locale.
And that history will, most likely, enrich your own life and your Place in it.
If you have an understanding of the name of a place, its history may reveal itself.
Shakespeare quipped, What\'s in a name? A lot, it turns out, because states like California and Florida reflect their Spanish history; here, in the Great Lakes, that history is indigenous.
Additionally, six out of 13 of Canada\'s provinces and territories have Names with Indigenous origins, and, of course, Canada itself is derived from an Indigenous source.
No less than 27 out of the 50 states\' Names in the USA are based in American Indian languages
