: Phil Bellfy
: Indians and Other Misnomers of the Upper Great Lakes The True Indigenous Origins of Geographic Place Names
: Modern History Press
: 9781615997442
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: Geschichte
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: 164
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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, '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. InIndians 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.

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;