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Indian place names in Alabama
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ISBN: 0817384723 0585295514 9780585295510 9780817384722 0817302301 081730231X 9780817302306 9780817302313 Year: 1984 Publisher: Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press,

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""What is the 'meaning' of names like Coosa and Tallapoosa? Who named the Alabama and Tombigbee and Tennessee rivers? How are Cheaha and Conecuh and Talladega pronounced? How did Opelika and Tuscaloosa get their names? Questions like these, which are asked by laymen as well as by historians, geographers, and students of the English language, can be answered only by study of the origins and history of the Indian names that dot the map of Alabama.-from the Foreword


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Louisiana place names of Indian origin : a collection of words
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ISBN: 0817380728 9780817380724 9780817355050 0817355057 Year: 2008 Publisher: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press,

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His writings spanned five decades and have been instrumental across a wide range of academic disciplines. Most importantly, Read devoted a good portion of his research to the meaning of place names in the southeastern United States-especially as they related to Indian word adoption by Europeans. This volume includes his three Louisiana articles combined: Louisiana: Louisiana Place-Names of Indian Origin (1927), More Indian Place-Names in Louisiana (1928), and Indian Words (1931). Joining Alabama's reprint of Indian Places Names in Alabama and


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How the West Was Drawn : Mapping, Indians, and the Construction of the Trans-Mississippi West
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ISBN: 1496208013 1496207998 0803249306 1496224922 9781496207999 9781496208019 9781496224927 9780803249301 9781496208002 Year: 2018 Publisher: Lincoln : Baltimore, Md. : University of Nebraska Press, Project MUSE,

Iowa place names of Indian origin
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ISBN: 1587292440 9781587292446 0877451222 9780877451228 0877451230 9780877451235 Year: 1983 Publisher: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press,

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