Navajo Place Names
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Publisher | : Mps Multimedia Incorporated DBA Selectsoft |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
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Publisher | : Mps Multimedia Incorporated DBA Selectsoft |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
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Author | : Laurance D. Linford |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : History |
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A place-name guide covering the entire traditional Navajo homeland includes some 1,200 entries appearing in alphabetical order by name and organized by state. Each entry includes the English name, elevation, county, meaning of the Navajo name, significance if known, description, and location. Also includes introductory material outlining Navajo history, culture, and ceremony.
Author | : Guillermo Bertelt |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 8 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Names, Geographical |
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Author | : Anu Kapur |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2019-02-26 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0429614217 |
This book is the first of its kind to chart the terrain of contemporary India’s many place names. It explores different ‘place connections’, investigates how places are named and renamed, and looks at the forces that are remaking the future place name map of India. Lucid and accessible, this book explores the bonds between names, places and people through a unique amalgamation of toponomy, history, mythology and political studies within a geographical expression. This volume addresses questions on the status and value of place names, their interpretation and classification. It brings to the fore the connections between place names and the cultural, geographical and historical significations they are associated with. This will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of geography, law, politics, history and sociology, and will also be of interest to policy-makers, administrators and the reader interested in India.
Author | : William Bright |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2013-03-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0806189142 |
Have you ever driven through a small town with an intriguing name like Wyandotte or Cuyamungue and wondered where that name came from? Or how such well-known placenames as Tucson, Waco, or Tulsa originated? Native American placenames like these occur all across the American Southwest. This user-friendly guide—covering Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas—provides fascinating information about the meaning and origins of southwestern placenames. With its unique regional approach and compact design, the handbook is especially suitable for curious travelers. Written by distinguished linguist William Bright, the handbook is organized alphabetically, and its entries for places—including towns, cities, counties, parks, and geographic landmarks—are concise and easy to read. Entries give the state and county, along with all available information on pronunciation, the name of the language from which the name derives, the name’s literal meaning, and relevant history.In their introduction to the handbook, editors Alice Anderton and Sean O’Neill provide easy-to-understand pronunciation keys for English and Native languages. They further explain basic linguistic terminology and common southwestern geographical terms such as mesa, canyon, and barranca. The book also features maps showing all counties in each of the southwestern states, a list of Native languages and language families, and contact information for tribal headquarters throughout the Southwest.
Author | : Stephen C. Jett |
Publisher | : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : |
Placenames also function as mnemonic devices that may facilitate communication, travel, resource-finding, and mythological memory, and as such are highly charged linguistic symbols.".
Author | : Will Croft Barnes |
Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 514 |
Release | : 1988-02 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9780816510740 |
Will Croft Barnes (1858-1937) first came to Arizona as a cavalryman and went on to become a rancher, state legislator, and conservationist. From 1905 to 1935, his travels throughout the state, largely on horseback, enabled him to gather the anecdotes and geographical information that came to constitute Arizona Place Names. For this first toponymic encyclopedia of Arizona, Barnes compiled information from published histories, federal and state government documents, and reminiscences of "old timers, Indians, Mexicans, cowboys, sheep-herders, historians, any and everybody who had a story to tell as to the origin and meaning of Arizona names." The result is a book chock full of oddments, humor, and now-forgotten lore, which belongs on the night table as well as in the glove compartment. Barnes' original Arizona Place Names has become a booklover's favorite and is much in demand. The University of Arizona Press is pleased to reissue this classic of Arizoniana, which remains as useful and timeless as it was more than half a century ago.
Author | : Jim Flynn |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 191 |
Release | : 2016-12-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1439658730 |
The origins of Colorado place names offer insightful glimpses into the state's formative years. Emanuel Saltiel named his new community along the Arkansas River Cotopaxi, after a volcano in Ecuador. Rifle Creek and the town of Rifle earned their names thanks to a rifle left behind along the banks of the creek. Optimistic miners mistakenly believed Tarryall had an abundance of gold and thus named it as a place where prospectors could mine and tarry. And despite attempts by government officials to rename a small community along the I-70 corridor in western Colorado, locals refused to call it anything other than No Name. Learn these stories and more as author Jim Flynn unravels the intriguing origins of Centennial State place names.
Author | : Alan Wilson |
Publisher | : Audio-Forum |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 2005-06-30 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9781579702403 |
Author | : Laurance D. Linford |
Publisher | : University of Utah Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0874808480 |
"Avid readers of Tony Hillerman's Southwestern mysteries have probably wondered about the many place names they encounter as Chee and Leaphorn puzzle out another crime in the Four Corners region." "This handy reference and visitor's guide contains entries for all places mentioned in the Hillerman novels. It provides location, historical information, the meaning of Navajo and Hopi names, and where the place appears in the mysteries. This expanded second edition includes entries for The Wailing Wind, The Sinister Pig, and Skeleton Man as well as all previous works."--BOOK JACKET.