Turtle Island (North America)Turtle Island is an English language translation ostensibly of many Native American tribes' terms for the continent of North America. There is little if any historical evidence that any tribes had such a term in their language or used it in this manner, although it is used today by many Native tribes and Native rights activists. The newly coined term is proposed as a substitute for or synonym for North America. The term was brought into popular usage by Gary Snyder through his book Turtle Island[1] in 1974. In a later essay, published in At Home on the Earth,[1] Snyder claimed this title as a term referring to North America which synthesizes both indigenous and colonizer cultures by translating the indigenous name into the colonizer's languages (the Spanish "Isla Tortuga" being proposed as a name as well). Snyder argues that understanding North America under the name of Turtle Island will help shift conceptions of the continent.
Referring to North America as Turtle Island suggests a view of North America not merely as a land "discovered" and colonized by people of European descent, but as a land inhabited and stewarded by a collection of rich, diverse, and civilized peoples.[clarification needed] This collection may have room for both indigenous and colonizer cultures. This re-framing of the identity of North America is intended to bring about a better cohabitation of these two groups of people. Finally the term suggests to some interpreters[who?] a more holistic relationship between people and the continent's ecology, visualizing Turtle Island as an amalgamation of bioregions.
Just a few of the many hundreds of native words meaning "turtle" are:
Powhatan................................accomodemsk
Abenaki....................................tolba
Maliseet...................................cihkonaqc
Mohegan..................................toyupáhs,tunuppasog
Ojibwe......................................mishiike, mikinaak, boozikadoo, dedebikinaak
Delaware..................................tacliquoch, ttilpe
Shawnee...................................mis-sic-kon-noch-que
Arapaho....................................be'énoo
Cheyenne..................................ma'eno
Mohawk.....................................a'nowara
Iroquois.....................................hanuna
Hidatsa......................................matahi
Lakota.......................................kheya, phatkasha, kheyowuspa
Navajo.......................................ch'ééhdigháhii, tsisteeł
Sahaptin (Yakama).....................alashik
A Native American term, shamah refers to Indians that look white. It is usually used as a derogatory term that Indians would take offense too.
there is no such word in the native American vocabulary.
No. American Indians taught priests and all other colonists how to farm and survive in North America. I am not sure what you mean by building skills, but different Native Americans already had many ways of building their residences before the colonists arrived.
Soldier/Warrior
It means Pro!!
NO
Do you mean Asian-Indians or Native American Indians. Koreans have interacted with both for centuries.
I meant to add with the Indians. sry.--If by Indians you mean Native Americans, yes, some did fight: most opposing the Americans.
If you mean the Thanksgiving feast, the Native Americans or American Indians joined the pilgrims' feast after teaching the pilgrims about native foods.
it means your either native American or something else!Native means, from that place, an original inhabitant. A native animal is one peculiar to a particular region, for example the giant panda is native to China.
A Native American term, shamah refers to Indians that look white. It is usually used as a derogatory term that Indians would take offense too.
the wampanoagyou mean Plymouth rock the native Americans. they helped how to plant fish and make good crops
there is no such word in the native American vocabulary.
This question depends on 'which' Indians you mean. North American Indians? India Indians? etc. Native American's travel by: Air, ground and water (all forms of transportation). Indian's (from India) travel by: Air, ground and water (all forms of transportation).
Indians don't - they live in India. I mean they might, but you mean Native Americans
The Chickasaw were Native American Indians who were friendly and wore feathers on teir heads for headress. They were in Alabama and other places that's your going to have to look up youselves! (not to be mean ;p)
If you mean Native American groups, there currently are the Turtle Mountain Chippewa, the Standing Rock Sioux, the Spirit Lake Sioux, the Hidatsa, the Mandan, and the Arikara. Other native groups could be animals, plants, soils, etc.