or perhaps were never really known in the first place. Most of course relate either to the tribes themselves, or to prominent features of the landscape such as rivers, lakes and mountains, and these features were also the elements of the New World ...
I have left the teams named for Native American warriors and tribes for this separate post, instead of including them in the earlier one on warriors and local groups, to which the names logically belong, because there are special questions raised about the propriety of such names. The three ...
Halona (Native American –Iroquois Indian) –“Happy” or “fortune” Native American Girl Names Meaning Water Many Native American tribes considered water as an essential and sacred element. The Blackfoot Indians even believe that the waters are the home of divine beings. Some names that mean ...
in fact, they rarely are. One can think of few aspects of life where the creation of names is a consistent and orderly process. Sure, cities have tried to be systematic in naming their streets, astronomers in coding the stars, biologists when they classify the plants...