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Arabwal (Other) Carolinian
This is the name of a village in Northern Mariana Islands the Satawalese Chief Aghurubw founded in the early 1800s after a typhoon devastated his homeland. This name came from a vine-like plant found on beaches in Satawal Island, Federated States of Micronesia and Saipan... [more]

Comancheria (Country) Spanish
This is the Spanish term for the Comanche empire, territory which is different areas of states in America.

Hagåtña (Political Subdivision) Chamorro
This is the name of the capital of the US territory Guam. The name comes from the Chamorro term "Haga" defined as blood. It also comes from the bloodlines of different families and family members who built the village... [more]

Kuruvungna (Other) Tongva
This is the name of a village and sacred area in what is now University Senior High School in West Los Angeles. The word means "a place where we are the sun."

Mer (Island) Meriam Mer
This is the name of Mer Island which is in the Torres Strait Islands. The area is the home of the Meriam Mer people. This is the birth place of the Eddie Koiki Mabo (1936-1992), one of the plaintiffs in "The Mabo Case" for ownership concerning Mer Island.

Nan'yō (Region) Japanese
This is the shorter version of the name Nan'yō Guntō. It's an abbreviation. It in English means the "South Seas" and "Micronesia." It was used lots of times by Okinawans during the Japanese administration era... [more]

Nan'yō Guntō (Region) Japanese
This is the Japanese name for "Micronesia" which Imperial Japan occupied. This region included Marshall Islands which was taken over in 1914, Téél Falúw Kka Efáng Iiól Marianas (Commonwealth of The Northern Mariana Islands) where the Japanese treated Carolinians worse than the Chamorros, Guam where Japanese-CHamoru families existed, and other areas in the region.

Pimu (Island) Tongva
This is the Tongva for Catalina Island. It was valued for natural resources by the Tongva. They built little villages on the island including where the city Avalon is now.

Rangihaute (Island) Moriori
This is the name the Moriori gave Pitt Island in the Chatham Archipelago. On this island Moriori slaves hid from Maori masters during the Moriori enslavement. One of these slaves include a man named Koche, a popular (among the Moriori) son of a Moriori chief, who escape from his Maori master.

Rapa Nui (Island) Rapa Nui
This is one of the Rapanui names for Easter Island. The word "Nui" in this case with "Rapa" means "Great Rapa." It was named this to distinguish it from another island in French Polynesia Rapa Iti. This name comes from a Tahitian who thought the shape of the island looked like his home island Rapa (now called Rapa Iti) in what is now French Polynesia... [more]

Rēkohu (Island) Moriori
The name means "misty sun" or "misty skies." This was what the Moriori called the Chatham Islands. This is what they also called Chatham Island.

Sankattan Siha Na Islas Mariånas (Region) Chamorro
This Chamorro for Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Chamorros possibly settled this area thousands of years ago. Chamorros were enslaved here by Imperial Japan from 1944-1945. In Saipan (capital of Northern Mariana Islands) Chamorros under a American military government were put in a camp called Camp Susupe.

Satawal (Other) Satawalese
This is the name of a atoll in what is now Federated States of Micronesia. It was devastated by 1815 typhoon which led to Satawalese moving to what is now Téél Falúw Kka Efáng Iiól Marianas... [more]

Seipél (Island) Carolinian
This is the Refaluwasch, what the Carolinian language name for themselves, name of the island of Saipan and capital of the Northern Mariana Islands. Chamorros possible settled Seipél thousands of years ago... [more]

Téél Falúw Kka Efáng Iiól Marianas (Region) Carolinian
This is the Carolinian (Refaluwasch) name of the US territory "Commonwealth of The Northern Mariana Islands." In 1815 Satawalese Chief Aghurubw (pronounced A-GA-RU-B) and Chief of Elato Island Nguschul (pronounced NGU-SHOO-L) brought their groups, who would eventually be called Refaluwasch, to this region after a typhoon devastated their islands... [more]

Te Ika A Māui (Island) Maori
This is the Maori name for North Island in New Zealand. The name in English is "the fish of Māui." Navigator Kupe according to a Polynesian tradition shaped the islands of New Zealand.

Te Pito O Te Henua (Island) Rapa Nui
This is one of the names the Rapanui called Easter Island. This name is older than the name Rapa Nui. In English it means, "the navel (or center) of the world" or "the center/navel of the world." It can also mean "the end of the land."

Te Waipounamu (Island) Maori
This is the Maori name for the South Island in New Zealand. Around 1550 Maoris migrated from North Island in what is now New Zealand to South Island due to high population.

Tovangar (Region) Tongva
This is the Tongva name for the region called Greater Los Angeles Basin. Tongva people have been in this region for thousands of years. Toypurina, a Tongva female shaman, in the 1780s led an uprising against the Spanish San Gabriel Mission (in an area part of Los Angeles Basin).

Uluru (Other) Pitjantjatjara
This is the traditional name of Ayers Rock as well as part of the traditional name of the park its in. The Anangu (arn-ung-oo) Aboriginal Australians viewed the Uluru monolith as sacred. They gained control of the site in 1985... [more]

Wharekauri (Settlement) Maori
This is misnomer of the Chatham Islands and Chatham Island. A Maori man made this mistake before 1835. This came from a settlement on Chatham Island named Wharekauri. The Maori have called Chatham Island that to this day.

Yaang'na (Political Subdivision) Tongva
This is the name of a Tongva village under the 101 Freeway in Los Angeles and for the region Los Angeles. This village used to be a important trading center. The Los Angeles City Council in 2013 stated its support for the Tongva to have a government-to-government relationship with America.

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