Turtle Island
Meaning
Proper Noun
Origin
- From , based on the role of a turtle's back acting as the base for the world while being surrounded by water in creation stories of multiple tribes of the Northeastern Woodlands region of North America as well as Algonquian- and Iroquoian-speaking peoples. the Haudenosaunee, the Ojibwe people, and the Cree.
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