Indians and Other Misnomers of the Upper Great Lakes (eBook)

The True Indigenous Origins of Geographic Place Names

Phil Bellfy (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
164 Seiten
Modern History Press (Verlag)
978-1-61599-744-2 (ISBN)

Infos

No less than 27 out of the 50 states' names in the USA are based in American Indian languages. 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. 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. If you have an understanding of the name of a place, its history may reveal itself. And that history will, most likely, enrich your own life and your place in it.
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. Alternately, you can peruse an alphabetical concordance of every place name. In the appendices, you'll discover details of US and Canadian treaties with indigenous people, and many that are still under dispute today--including the Anishinaabek, Ottawa, Chippewa, Potawatomi, Miami, Kickapoo, Sauk, Sioux, Ojibway, Mississauga, Mohawk, Algonquin, Iroquois, Huron, and related First Nations bands in Ontario.
'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. Indians and Other Misnomers of the Upper Great Lakest will be in the forefront of changing the way in which Indigenous knowledge shapes the hitherto colonial narrative of the Great Lakes.' David T. McNab, professor emeritus, York University, Toronto, Ontario.
'Indians and Other Misnomers of the Upper Great Lakest is a fascinating exploration of the Indigenous origins of many place names bordering 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. It is a must-own companion book for researchers, residents and anyone interested in the places, history and linguistic heritages of the Great Lakes.' --Karl Hele, Anishinaabeg and the Davidson Chair in Canadian Studies, Mount Allison University
'Words carry meaning and history. In Indians and Other Misnomers of the Upper Great Lakest, Dr. 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. 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 been impacted by settler colonialism.' -- Dr. Martin Reinhardt, Anishinaabe Ojibway citizen of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians; professor of Native American Studies, Northern Michigan University, president of the Michigan Indian Education Council.

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No less than 27 out of the 50 states' names in the USA are based in American Indian languages. 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. Shakespeare quipped, "e;What's in a name?"e; A lot, it turns out, because states like California and Florida reflect their Spanish history; here, in the Great Lakes, that history is indigenous. If you have an understanding of the name of a place, its history may reveal itself. And that history will, most likely, enrich your own life and your place in it. 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. Alternately, you can peruse an alphabetical concordance of every place name. In the appendices, you'll discover details of US and Canadian treaties with indigenous people, and many that are still under dispute today--including the Anishinaabek, Ottawa, Chippewa, Potawatomi, Miami, Kickapoo, Sauk, Sioux, Ojibway, Mississauga, Mohawk, Algonquin, Iroquois, Huron, and related First Nations bands in Ontario. "e;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. Indians and Other Misnomers of the Upper Great Lakest will be in the forefront of changing the way in which Indigenous knowledge shapes the hitherto colonial narrative of the Great Lakes."e; David T. McNab, professor emeritus, York University, Toronto, Ontario. "e;Indians and Other Misnomers of the Upper Great Lakest is a fascinating exploration of the Indigenous origins of many place names bordering 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. It is a must-own companion book for researchers, residents and anyone interested in the places, history and linguistic heritages of the Great Lakes."e; --Karl Hele, Anishinaabeg and the Davidson Chair in Canadian Studies, Mount Allison University "e;Words carry meaning and history. In Indians and Other Misnomers of the Upper Great Lakest, Dr. 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. 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 been impacted by settler colonialism."e; -- Dr. Martin Reinhardt, Anishinaabe Ojibway citizen of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians; professor of Native American Studies, Northern Michigan University, president of the Michigan Indian Education Council.

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Ontario Place Names

ONTARIO; or from Kanadario: Sparkling Water; or from Onitariio: Beautiful Lake; or from Ontarack: Rocks Standing High in the Water; other possible meanings: Handsome Lake, or Large Lake; NY, OR, WI p.n. It should be noted that many Ontario First Nations have renamed their Reserves in their language, and the “translation” is not always given as an assertion of their original jurisdiction.

Aamjiwnaang: Meeting Place By the Rapid Water, or At the Spawning Stream; First Nation

Abitibi: Half-way Water (in reference to trading posts in either direction)

Agawa Canyon: Bending Shore

Alderville: First Nation

Algonquin: Spearing Fish from the End of a Canoe, or Spearing Fish Place

Algonquins of Pikwàkanagàn: A Hilly Place; First Nation

Animbiigoo Zaagi'igan Anishinaabek (ntg);): First Nation

Anishinaabeg of Naongashiing: Big Island: First Nation

Aroland: First Nation

Atikameksheng Anishnawbek: (ntg) formerly known as the Whitefish Lake First Nation

Atikokan: Caribou Bones

Attawapiskat: Rock Bottom; People of the Parting of the Rocks; First Nation

Baagwaashiing: Where the Water is Shallow; aka Pays Plat (French: Flat Land); First Nation

Batchewana: First Nation

Batchewana Bay: Welling Waters Place

Batchewana; First Nation

Bearfoot Onondaga: First Nation

Beausoleil: First Nation

Beaverhouse  (non-Status);): First Nation

Big Grassy: First Nation

Biinjitiwaabik Zaaging Anishinaabek (ntg);): First Nation

Bkejwanong: Where the Waters Divide (Walpole Island); First Nation

Brantford: named after the prominent Mohawk chief, Joseph Brant

Brunswick House: First Nation

Caldwell: First Nation

Cat Lake: First Nation

Cataraqui: Where River and Lake Meet

Cayuga: Here They Take the Boats Out

Chapleau Cree: First Nation

Chippawa: People Without Moccasins

Chippewa of the Thames: First Nation

Chippewas of Georgina Island: First Nation

Chippewas of Kettle & Stony Point: First Nation

Chippewas of Mnjikaning: The Fish Fence at the Narrows; (aka Rama); First Nation

Chippewas of Nawash (formerly known as Cape Croker);): First Nation

Chippewas of Saugeen: First Nation

Coaticook: River of Pines

Constance Lake; First Nation

Couchiching: Edge of a Whirlpool; or from Gojijing: Inlet; First Nation

Curve Lake; First Nation

Deer Lake: First Nation

Delaware: First Nation

Dokis: First Nation

Eabametoong First Nation: At the Reversing of the Waterplace

Eagle Lake: First Nation

Erie: Long-tailed, or Panther

Etobicoke: from Wahdobekaung; Forest of Alders, or Place Where Alders Grow

Flying Post: First Nation

Fort Albany: First Nation

Fort Severn: First Nation

Fort William: First Nation

Gananoque: Rocks in Deep Water, or Rocks Rising Out of River

Ginoogaming (formerly known as Long Lake 77);): First Nation

Gogama: Fish Leap Over the Water

Grassy Narrows: aka Asubpeeschoseewagong (ntg); aka Iskapiciwan: Dried-up Stream; First Nation

Gull Bay: First Nation

Hiawatha: First Nation

Hornepayne: First Nation

Iroquois: Real Adders

Iskutewizaagegan: (ntg) (formerly known as Shoal Lake 39 First Nation)

Kakabeka Falls: River of Short Bends and Many Islands, or Always Plenty of Game

Kaministiquia: (River) With Islands

Kapuskasing: from Paskeshegay; Rushing Water, Shooting Water, or Bend in River

Kasabonika Lake: (ntg); First Nation

Kashechewan First Nation: Where the Water Flows Fast

Keewatin: North Wind Place

Keewaywin: Going Home, or Going Back; First Nation

Kenogami: Long Water

Kenora: a municipal name coined from KEewatin (see above), NOrman, and RAt Portage

Ketegaunseebee: Garden River First Nation

Kingfisher: First Nation

Komoka: Place Where the Dead Lie

Koocheching: (ntg); First Nation

Lac des Mille Lacs: First Nation

Lac La Croix: First Nation

Lac Seul: First Nation

Little Current: aka Waibejewung: Place Where the Waters Flow Back and Forth

Long Lake: First Nation

Madawaska: Grassy River Mouth; or People of the Shadows

Maganetewan: Long, Open Channel, or Swiftly Flowing River

Magnetawan: Swiftly Flowing Waters; First Nation

Manitoulin: Island of the Spirit; or a corruption of Manitowaning: At the Spirit's Cave (the root, Manitou, means Spirit)

Manitowaning: Great Spirit Cave

Marten Falls: First Nation

Matachewan: Meeting of the Currents; First Nation

Mattagami: Meeting of the Currents; First Nation

Mattawa: Where the Current Begins, River Flowing Into the Lake, or River Flowing Into Another Body of Water

McDowell Lake: First Nation

M'Chigeeng: Village Enclosed by Stepped Cliffs; First Nation

Michipicoten: Big Blufs, Bold Promontories Place, or Broken, Craggy Highlands Place; First Nation

Mimico: Wild Pigeon Place

Mindemoya, Lake: Old Woman Lake

Mishkeegogamang: (formerly known as Osnaburgh); First Nation

Missanabie Cree: Pictured Water: First Nation

Missinaibi: Pictures on the Water (reference to pictographs along banks)

Mississauga: River Having Many Outlets; First Nation

Mississaugas of Scugog Island: Swampy or Marshy Land; First Nation

Mississaugas of the Credit: First Nation

Mnjikaning First Nation: Near the Fishing Weirs

Mocreebec Indian Government: First Nation

Mohawks of Akwesasne: Land Where the Partridge Drums; First Nation

Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte: First Nation

Moose Cree: First Nation

Moose Deer Point: First Nation

Moosonee: At the Moose (River)

Munsee-Delaware Nation: First Nation

Muskoka: Red Earth; or from Mesqua Ukie: (Chief) Yellowhead

Muskrat Dam Lake: First Nation

Naicatchewenin: At the Place Where the Current is Obstructed; First Nation

Nakina: Land Covered with Moss

Namaygoosisagagun: Trout Lake (non-Status); First Nation

Nanticoke: Tide-water

Naotkamegwanning Anishinabe: Of the Whitefish Point; First Nation

Napanee: Flour

Nassagaweya: River with Two Outlets

Neebing: Summer

Neskantaga: (ntg); First Nation

Netmizaaggamig Nishnaabeg: (ntg) (formerly Pic Mobert); First Nation

Niagara: Bisected Bottom Lands, Neck of Land Between Lakes, Thunder of Waters, or Resounding with Great Noise; aka Kitchi-Gaugeedjiwunng: Great Falls

Nibinamik First Nation: Summer Beaver

Nigigoonsiminikaaning First Nation: Place Abundant with Little-Otter Berries

Niisaachewan Anishinaabe Nation: (ntg); First Nation

Nipigon: So Long that You Cannot See the End of It; or from Animibeegoong: Along the Water's Edge, or Continuous Water

Nipissing, Lake: At the Place of the Waters; or In a Little Water, or In the Leaves; or from Nipisisinan: Little Body of Water (ie. the smallest of the Great Lakes); First Nation

North Caribou Lake: First Nation

North Spirit Lake: First Nation

Northwest Angle No. 33: First Nation

Northwest Angle No. 37: First Nation

Ojibways of Garden River: First Nation

Ojibways of Onigaming: The Portage; First Nation

Ojibways of Sucker Creek: First Nation

Ojibways of the Pic River: First Nation

Onaping: from Onumananing: Red Paint, or Vermillion

Oneida Nation of the Thames: First Nation

Oneida: People of the Upright Stone

Opeongo: Sandy at the Narrows

Oshawa: To Go to the Other Side, Stream Crossing, or Carrying Place

Otonabee: River That Beats Like a Heart

Ottawa: Bartering Place, To Trade; Basil Johnston, an Ojibway speaker, says the word means To Sell, not To Trade; he also says that the Ottawa River is named from Odauwuhnshk, which means Bullrush River

Parry Island: orig. Waussaukissing: Brightly Reflecting

Peawanuck: Flintstone; new name for Winisk

Penetanguishene: Place of White Falling Sands, or Where the Sand Slides Down the Bank

Petawawa: Noise of Water Far Away is Heard

Pikangikum: Lake of Calm Waters; First Nation

Pikwakanagan First Nation: Hilly Place, or Hlly Country Covered in Evergreens

Poplar Hill: First Nation

Poplar Point: First Nation

Powassan: Big Bend

Rainy River: Ojiji Ziibi; First Nation

Red Rock Band: First Nation

Sabaskong: Passage Way

Sachigo Lake: (ntg); First...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.5.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lektüren / Interpretationen
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY • History • India • indigenous studies • Native American • native American languages • Social Science
• ISBN-10: 1-61599-744-X / 161599744X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-61599-744-2 / 9781615997442