Native American Languages

http://www.native-languages.org/Cherokee.htm

One quick fix before I get technical on you is to find the European (or wherever) origin of the name you wish to translate and use that information to arrive at the "base" meaning of the name and then apply that information in the new formulation of the translated name. All names, first or last have some origin and meaning, somewhere. For example if Cooper means barrel maker, you might find a similar meaning native word for someone who is artistic or works with their hands such as "basket weaver". Not an exact translation, but then again, what is?

"Cherokee" is what the Creek (I think) guides told the first explorers, when they asked what the other tribe was called. It really means people of a different language. Kind of like you asking me "Who's in the yard next door?" and me saying "My neighbours" and you telling everyone the Smiths, who live next door to me, are the "Mynaybor" tribe or an Englishman asking a Frenchman who the Germans are. A Frenchman's answer would be "Il est allemand" but if he asked the German himself, the German would say, "Deutschlander" or "Ich bin Deutsch". So technically, it would be as if we all learned to call the Germans, the Allemand because the French "discovered" them.

First of all please note that I am a student of this subject and not a teacher. I recommend this website for some help with your question. It has some links which you can use accordingly and since you seem to be interested, some other information you may find helpful such as animal names and other often used words and phrases of the Tsalagi or "Cherokee" language.

As for names it is best, as well as appropriate to get assistance from a tribal member for such requests. Although the Cherokee do have a written alphabet, certain aspects of it are quite different than the European alphabet and there are also some vocal differences in proper pronunciation. Most of these differences are covered at least somewhat on the site listed above.

If you cannot get to the sight by this link, please simply enter these two words, Cherokee language, in your browser and it should be close to, if not your first hit. Good luck and please pass on the importance of Native languages, culture, lifestyles and history to all who will listen, especially the children, our next generation of leaders and perhaps we can all work together to right some of the many, many wrongs of our European ancestors.

There are about 450 Languages spoken in India and about 700 different Native American languages.

But there is no such language as "Indian".

Wounded Knee

All of our stories were to teach, and unlike your societies stories we did not give "the moral of" at the end - you don't learn that way.

This is the story of Looks-Twice:

There once was a man named Looks-Twice, he was not the bravest or the fastest or the best hunter in the tribe. He set out one morning to become the greatest hunter. He crossed a river to hunt for a great deer he saw the day before. He found its tracks and began following it deeper and deeper in to the forest. Around mid-day it started to rain and he was getting close. A little while later he spotted the deer and was able to down it with a single arrow. He shouted with glee at such a fine kill and the thought of sitting at the head of the fire tonight. He struggled to carry the deer through the mud and the rain got worse; and cold. Near dark he returned to the river, exhausted from his long trek with this large deer, and the river was flooded and impassable.

This is the story of Looks-Twice (and there is no "one answer" to this story).

Brotherhood of Cheerful Service or brotherhood, cheerfulness, service

There are about 450 Languages spoken in India and about 700 different Native American languages.

But there is no such language as "Indian".

Native Washingtonians (which makes as much sense as saying Native Americans) includes many tribes-Cathlamet, Chilluckittequaw, Columbia, Hoh, Humptulips, Klickitat, Lummi and so on. Unfortunately a lot of these languages have now been lost and many just speak English.

There are several theories about the word "Boise" but none of them trace it to any Native American language.

There are about 450 Languages spoken in India and about 700 different Native American languages.

But there is no such language as "Indian".

I'm not sure how to spell it but it sounds like:

a cha chaii

The term usually used in Arabic to refer to Native Americans is al-Honud al-Hamraa' (الهنود الحمراء) which literally means "the Red Indians". While this term is offensive in English, it carries no such weight in Arabic. If you wish to translate the term more naturally, it would be al-Amrikiyyin al-Asliyyin (الأمريكيين الأصليين), which literally means "the Original Americans", but this term is more often used to refer to those indigenous peoples from Latin America, as opposed to the US or Canada.

almost all of them

The word "wanna" is English slang for "want to", pronounced in a slurred and rapid way.

Similarly "gonna" is slang for "going to" pronounced in the same disrespectful manner.

Both date from the 19th century (gonna from Scots dialect gaunna, first recorded 1806, wanna first recorded about 1896). Both terms became widely used in British and American youth culture during the 1940s and 1950s.

Neither word has anything to do with any native American language.

Chicago is derived from the Native American tribe (Algonquian) and means: onion or skunk. It could also mean "Smells bad" depending on how it is used.

It refers to a place where there is skunks. In the ojibwe language, places of reference often end in the 'o' suffix and the root word is 'chigag' which refers to the skunk. So the translation would be or at least how i understand it in my ojibwe language is ' a place where the skunks come from, a place where there is skunks, a place where you find skunks' depending on how you would use the word in the ojibwe language.

There are about 450 Languages spoken in India and about 700 different Native American languages.

But there is no such language as "Indian".

Andrew Jackson's administration was very harsh on Native Americans. A long time Indian fighter and treaty maker, Jackson believed the best place for them to be was out of the way so settlers could push forward western expansion. His administration is scarred by the infamous Trail of Tears when Cherokee tribe were forcibly removed from their tribal hunting land in North Carolina and forced to go on an arduous journey across the country to Oklahoma. Many succumbed along the way to starvation, exposure and sickness. s the country to Oklahoma. Many died fro exposure and hunger.