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Posted By: maeve
10-Sep-10 - 02:18 AM
Thread Name: BS: Who Named Rocky Mountains? When?
Subject: RE: BS: Who Named Rocky Mountains? When?
These resources may offer a start on a verifiable answer, Ebbie. The last three or so deal with the Cree words for other places too; offering some apparent confirmation of the translation-from-Cree explanations. Have fun!

http://www.spiralroad.com/sr/pn/r/rocky_mountains.html

http://books.google.com/books?id=Qvm7AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA175&lpg=PA175&dq=%27as-sin-wati.%27&source=bl&ots=pBIfW3Kn65&sig=sW8HLDFnAS_1

http://www.placenamesofalberta.ca/300_names_definitions/dalhousie.html


http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/ALBERTA/2003-01/1043779699