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Publishes award-winning books that advance humanities and social science fields, as well as English language teaching and regional resources.
Assists the U-M community of faculty, staff, and students in achieving their publishing ambitions.
Share and access research data, articles, chapters, dissertations and more produced by the U-M community.
A community-based, open source publishing platform that helps publishers present the full richness of their authors' research outputs in a durable, discoverable, accessible and flexible form. Developed by Michigan Publishing and University of Michigan Library.
Contents
Chapter I Michigan: The Name 1 II Tribal Names 6 III Ojibwa Personal Names 27 IV Ottawa Personal Names 41 V Potawatomi Personal Names 51 VI Other Personal Names 63 VII Names from Literature and Legend 67 VIII Artificial "Indian" Names 81 IX Rank, Gender, and Ethnic Names 87 X Material Culture Names 91 XI The Spirit World 100 XII Names from Fauna 104 XIII Names from Flora 114 XIV Rivers, Streams, and Lakes 122 XV Topography and Geology 134 XVI Descriptive Names 145 XVII Commemorative Names 152 XVIII Names Borrowed from Other States 155 XIX Indian Names from Outside the United States 170 XX French-Indian Names 176 XXI Potpourri 183 XXII Michigan Indians Today 188 Bibliography 193 Index 213 Illustrations following page 126
Vogel traces the origin of hundreds of Indian place names
Virgil J. Vogel received his doctorate degree in history from the University of Chicago. For over twenty-five years he studied and wrote about Native American history. In addition to three books, he wrote over seventy articles on Indian history, culture, and medicine.
