Word: mecheweami
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Dates: during 1945-1945
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...Mecheweami-ing into Wyoming. From the Indians, the U.S. has inherited one of its richest stores of names-those of no less than "26 states, 18 of the greatest cities, most of the larger lakes and longer rivers, a few of the highest mountains, and thousands of smaller towns and natural features." But most of these treasured names, Author Stewart explains, are by now about as Indian as the aboriginal forest trail now called Broadway. Even in their original forms they were often so old that their source and meaning puzzled the Indians themselves. Clipped and pummeled into pronounceable shape...
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