Palindrome names, or names that are spelled the same forward and backward, are fun to use and say. While you can look to old ...

The name Topeka, which is the capital city of Kansas, comes from the Kansa-Osage word meaning “a good place to dig potatoes.” ...

Personal names are also part of the typology of place naming. Most of the personal names added by English speakers are built into words that represent settlement or landscape features. There are ...

How do place names get made and then changed? There’s a process. But it involves people as well as bureaucracy, so it’s not ...

It is an acknowledgement of Coast Salish territories that takes recognition beyond words, and allows for an embodied ... and they have marked the land with many named places. These place names embody ...

So below is a list of Colorado places, and the Indigenous name for that place (in as many languages as available). Where we have it, we give the Indigenous word. In other cases, we have only the ...