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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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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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Names, Indian --- Cartography --- Indians of North America --- American aborigines --- American Indians --- First Nations (North America) --- Indians of the United States --- Indigenous peoples --- Native Americans --- North American Indians --- Cartography, Primitive --- Chartography --- Map-making --- Mapmaking --- Mapping (Cartography) --- Mathematical geography --- Surveying --- Map projection --- Maps --- Indian names --- Indians --- History --- Maps. --- Culture --- Ethnology --- Names --- Great Plains --- Plains, Great --- Northwest, Canadian --- West (U.S.)
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Names, Indian --- Names, Geographical --- Indians of North America --- American aborigines --- American Indians --- First Nations (North America) --- Indians of the United States --- Indigenous peoples --- Native Americans --- North American Indians --- Geographic names --- Geographical names --- Place names --- Placenames --- Toponyms --- Names --- Geography --- Toponymy --- Indian names --- Indians --- History. --- Culture --- Ethnology --- Iowa --- IA --- State of Iowa --- Ayova --- Штат Аёва --- Shtat Ai︠o︡va --- Аёва --- Ai︠o︡va --- Айова --- Áawah Hahoodzo --- Iowa osariik --- Αϊόβα --- Πολιτεία της Αϊóβα --- Politeia tēs Aiova --- Estado de Iowa --- Iovao --- Oi-hò-fà --- 아이오와 주 --- Aiowa-ju --- 아이오와 --- Aiowa --- Áyowạ --- Iova --- Aioua --- Айовæ --- Aĭovæ --- Ajova --- Ајова --- アイオワ州 --- Aiowa-shū --- Aiowashū --- アイオワ --- Estado ng Ayowa --- Iowa Eyaleti --- Штат Айова --- Iowa Territory --- Territory of Iowa --- History, Local.
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