- Source: List of place names of Native American origin in the United States
Many places throughout the United States take their names from the languages of the indigenous Native American/American Indian tribes. The following list includes settlements, geographic features, and political subdivisions whose names are derived from these languages.
State names
Alabama – named for the Alibamu, a tribe whose name derives from a Choctaw phrase meaning "thicket-clearers" or "plant-cutters" (from albah, "(medicinal) plants", and amo, "to clear").
Alaska – from the Aleut phrase alaxsxaq, meaning "the object towards which the action of the sea is directed").
Arizona – disputed origin; likely from the O'odham phrase ali ṣona-g, meaning "having a little spring".
Arkansas – from the Illinois rendering of the tribal autonym kką:ze (see Kansas, below), which the Miami and Illinois used to refer to the Quapaw.
Connecticut – from some Eastern Algonquian language of southern New England (perhaps Mahican), meaning "at the long tidal river" (after the Connecticut River). Campbell suggest an origin from the Mohegan meaning simply "long river".
Idaho – may be from Plains Apache ídaahę́, "enemy", used to refer to the Comanches, or it may have been an invented word.
Illinois – from the French rendering of an Algonquian (perhaps Miami) word apparently meaning "s/he speaks normally" (c.f. Miami ilenweewa), from Proto-Algonquian *elen-, "ordinary" + -wē, "to speak", referring to the Illiniwek.
Iowa – from Dakota ayúxba or ayuxwe, via French Aiouez.
Kansas – from the autonym kką:ze.
Kentucky – from an Iroquoian word meaning "at the meadow" or "on the prairie" (c.f. Seneca gëdá’geh [kẽtaʔkeh], "at the field").
Massachusetts – from an Algonquian language of southern New England, and apparently means "near the small big mountain", usually identified as Great Blue Hill on the border of Milton and Canton, Massachusetts (c.f. the Narragansett name Massachusêuck).
Michigan – from the Ottawa phrase mishigami, meaning "large water" or "large lake".".
Minnesota – from the Dakota phrase mni-sota, roughly meaning "cloudy water".
Mississippi – from an Algonquian language, probably Ojibwe, meaning "big river" (Ojibwe misiziibi).
Missouri – named for the Missouri tribe, whose name comes from Illinois mihsoori, "dugout canoe".
Nebraska – from the Chiwere phrase ñįbraske, meaning "flattened water".
New Mexico – the name "Mexico" comes from Nahuatl Mēxihco, of unknown derivation.
North Dakota and South Dakota – dakhóta comes from the Sioux word for "friend" or "ally".
Ohio – from Seneca ohi:yo’, "beautiful river".
Oklahoma – invented by Chief Allen Wright as a rough translation of "Indian Territory"; in Choctaw, okla means "people", "tribe", or "nation", and homa- means "red", thus: "Red people".
Tennessee – derived from the name of a Cherokee village, Tanasi, whose etymology is unknown.
Texas – from the Caddo phrase táyshaʔ, meaning "friend".
Utah – from a language of one of the Ute tribe's neighbors, such as Western Apache yúdah, "high up".
Wisconsin – originally "Mescousing", from an Algonquian language, though the source and meaning is not entirely clear; most likely from the Miami word Meskonsing meaning "it lies red" (c.f. Ojibwe miskosin).
Wyoming – from the Munsee Delaware phrase xwé:wamənk, meaning "at the big river flat".
Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
= Settlements
=District of Columbia
= Settlements
=Anacostia – from the Piscataway name Anakwashtank, meaning 'a place of traders'. Originally the name of a village of the Piscataway tribe on the Anacostia River. Also rendered as Nacochtank or Nacostine.
Takoma – originally the name of Mount Rainier, from Lushootseed [təqʷúbəʔ] (earlier *təqʷúməʔ), 'snow-covered mountain'. The location on the boundary of DC and Maryland was named Takoma in 1883 by DC resident Ida Summy, who believed it to mean 'high up' or 'near heaven'.
= Bodies of water
=Potomac River – from the Piscataway language or from a northern dialect of Virginia Algonquian, original form patawomek, meaning 'they bring it' (for trading).
Florida
= Counties
== Settlements
== Bodies of water
=Caloosahatchee River – from Calusa + hatchee, Choctaw for river.
Loxahatchee River – from Seminole for river of turtles.
Withlacoochee River – from Creek we (water), thlako (big), and chee (little), or little big water.
= Other
=Paynes Prairie – named after leading chief of the Seminoles King Payne.
Georgia
= Counties
== Settlements
=Cataula – a small community on US 27 in Harris County where 20th century guitar virtuoso Chet Adkins was born
Dahlonega
Nankipooh – once a whistle stop on the Central of Georgia railroads "R" branch, it is now a suburb of Columbus
Ochillie – a creek that flows northwest through Chattahoochee county, within the boundaries of the Fort Benning military reservation, and into Upatoi creek
Schatulga – a small community in western Columbus/Muscogee County
Toccoa
Upatoi – a creek that runs between Muscogee and Chattahoochee counties in west-central Georgia
Weracoba – a creek and city park in Columbus
Hawaii
= Counties
=Idaho
= Counties
== Settlements
== Bodies of water
== Other
=Moolack Mountain
Mount Iowa
Sacajawea Peaks
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
= Counties
== Settlements
=Kentucky
= Settlements
=Kuttawa
Paducah
= Other
=Cherokee Park – named after the Cherokee people.
Iroquois Park – The Iroquois Tribe is a federally recognized Native American tribe.
Shawnee Park – The Shawnee Tribe is a federally recognized Native American tribe.
Louisiana
= Parishes
== Settlements
== Bodies of water
=Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
= Counties
== Settlements
== Others
=Ha Ha Tonka State Park
Montana
= Counties
=Missoula County
City of Missoula
Village of East Missoula
= Settlements
== Bodies of water
== Other
=Absaroka–Beartooth Wilderness
Absaroka Range
Nebraska
= Counties
== Settlements
=Nevada
= Counties
=Elko County
City of Elko
Elko Hills
Washoe County
Washoe City
New Washoe City
Washoe Valley
= Settlements
== Bodies of water
== Other
=New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
Jemez Springs – named for the nearby Pueblo of Jemez
Nambe – Tewa: Nambe Owingeh [nɑ̃̀ŋbèʔ ʔówîŋgè]; Nambé is the Spanish version of a similar-sounding Tewa word, which can be interpreted loosely as meaning "rounded earth."
Pojoaque – Tewa: P'osuwaege Owingeh [p’òhsũ̀wæ̃̀gè ʔówîŋgè]
Taos – The English name Taos derives from the native Taos language meaning "place of red willows"
Tesuque – Tewa: Tetsuge Owingeh [tèʔts’úgé ʔówîŋgè])
Tucumcari – from Tucumcari Mountain, which is situated nearby. Where the mountain got its name is uncertain. It may have come from the Comanche word tʉkamʉkarʉ, which means 'ambush'. A 1777 burial record mentions a Comanche woman and her child captured in a battle at Cuchuncari, which is believed to be an early version of the name Tucumcari.
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
= Counties
=Pembina County – an Ojibwa word for viburnum edule, a plant with red berries which grows in the area. Nineteenth-century journal-writers and observers have translated the word as "summer berry" or "high cranberry".
City of Pembina
Sioux County
= Settlements
=Ohio
= Counties
== Settlements
=Oklahoma
Oregon
= Counties
== Communities
=Pennsylvania
= Counties
== Settlements
=Rhode Island
South Carolina
= Counties
== Settlements
=Seneca
= Bodies of water
== Islands
=Edisto Island
Kiawah Island
Wadmalaw Island
South Dakota
= Counties
== Settlements
=Tennessee
= Counties
=Sequatchie County – Cherokee word believed to mean, "opossum, he grins or runs".
Village of Sequatchie
Sequatchie River
Little Sequatchie River
Sequatchie Valley
Unicoi County – Native American word for the southern Appalachian Mountains, probably meaning "white" or "fog-draped"
Town of Unicoi
Unicoi Range
= Settlements
== Bodies of water
=Texas
Nacogdoches – from Caddo language, Nacogdoche tribe of the Caddo
Quanah – named for the Comanche Chief, Quanah Parker
Waco – from Wichita [wiːko], the name of a tribal subgroup, the Waco people.
Utah
Juab County – from Paiute word for "flat plain"
Kanab – from Paiute word for willow tree
Kamas – from indigenous word for an edible, wild bulb
Moab – from Paiute "moapa," meaning "mosquitoes", though possibly named after the biblical Moab
Oquirrh Mountains – from Goshute for "glowing, or wooded mountain"
Mount Timpanogos – from Paiute for "rocks and runny water"
Sanpete County - Chief Sanpitch
Uintah County – from Ute for "pine land"
Utah County, Utah Lake, etc. – "Utah" via "Yudah" or "Yutah" from a language of one of the Ute tribe's neighbors, such as Western Apache yúdah, "high up".
Wasatch (Wasatch Range, Wasatch County, Wasatch Plateau, Wahsatch, etc.) – from "wasatch," a Ute word for "mountain pass" or "low pass over high range"
Various municipal street names including Arapeen Drive ("Arapeen" was a notable 19th-century Paiute), Chipeta Way ("chipeta" is Ute for "rippling water") and Wasatch Boulevard ("wasatch" is Ute for "mountain pass").
Vermont
= Settlements
== Bodies of Water
== Islands
=Popasquash Island
Queneska Island: (Abnaki) "elbow" or "long joint"
= Other
=Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming
Cheyenne – From Lakota Šahíyela, the diminutive of Šahíya, "Cree", meaning roughly “different speakers”.
The name "Wyoming" comes from a Delaware Tribe word Mechaweami-ing or "maughwauwa-ma", meaning large plains or extensive meadows, which was the tribe's name for a valley in northern Pennsylvania. The name Wyoming was first proposed for use in the American West by Senator Ashley of Ohio in 1865 in a bill to create a temporary government for Wyoming Territory.
Pahaska Tepee- From Lakota “White Mountain Tepee”. Situated 2 miles east of Yellowstone National Park.
Popo Agie River – From the Absalooke or Crow Language Poppootcháashe, which means "Plopping River" for the sound the water makes when it comes out of the sinkhole in Sinks Canyon, near present Lander, Wyoming.
See also
List of placenames of indigenous origin in the Americas
List of federally recognized tribes by state: As of May 2013, there were 566 Native American tribes legally recognized by the U.S. Government, according to the article, "List of federally recognized tribes."
Native Americans in the United States
References
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