Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1890 — Indian Nomenclature. [ARTICLE]

Indian Nomenclature.

Jullian Ralph, in an article in Harpers’s Weekly, gives an interesting account of Father Lacombe. the apostle of the Blackfeet Indians, who, he says, is the most accomplished student of the Indian languages that Canada possesses. “He told me," he says, “that the white man’s handling of Indian words in the nomenclature of our cities, provinces, and States is as brutal as anything charged against the savages. Saskatchewan., for instance, means nothing. Kisiskatchewan is the word that was intended, It means •rapid current. * Manitoba is senseless, but ‘Manitowapa’ (the mysterious strait) would have been full of local import. However, there is no need to sadden ourselves with this expert

knowledge. Bother lotus be grateful for every Indian name with, which we have stamped individuality upon the map of foe world, be it rightly or wrongly set forth.” ,