Indian place names in Alabama /
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,...
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Edition: | Rev. ed. with a foreword, appendix, and index / |
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505 | 0 | |a Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Map of Alabama Counties and Principal Rivers -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Source of Names -- 2. Character of Names -- 3. Number and Distribution of Names -- 4. Pseudo-Indian Names -- Symbols and Abbreviations -- International Phonetic Alphabet -- List of Names -- Bibliography -- Appendix -- 1. Names -- 2. Pronunciation -- 3. Appendix Bibliography -- Index. | |
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