FOOTPRINTS OF THE RED MEN.
Indian Geographical Names
IN THE VALLEY OF HUDSON'S RIVER, THE VALLEY OF THE MOHAWK, AND ON THE DELAWARE: THEIR LOCATION AND THE PROBABLE MEANING OF SOME OF THEM.
BY
E. M. RUTTENBER,
Author of "History of the Indian Tribes of Hudson's River."
"Indian place-names are not proper names, that is unmeaning words, butsignificant appellatives each conveying a description of the localityto which it belongs."—Trumbull.
PUBLISHED UNDER THE AUSPICES
OF THE
New York State Historical Association.
Copyrighted by the
NEW YORK STATE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION.
1906.
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Primary Explanations.
The locatives of the Indian geographical names which have been handeddown as the names of boundmarks or of places or tribes, are properly asubject of study on the part of all who would be familiar with theaboriginal geography of a district or a state. In many cases these nameswere quite as designative of geographical centers as are the name