Wyandotte Street
From Pittsburgh Streets
| Wyandotte Street | |
|---|---|
| Neighborhoods | Crawford-Roberts, West Oakland |
| Origin of name | Wyandot people |
Wyandotte Street is named for the Wyandot people.[1][2][3] The Wyandots, also called the Huron, came from the north shore of Lake Ontario; many today live in Quebec and Oklahoma. Their own name for themselves is Wę́dat, which may be a shortening of a longer name corresponding to the Mohawk word skawę́:nat, meaning "one language," or tsha'tekawę́nat, meaning "the same language." Other possibilities include the Wyandot words wendat, meaning "forest," or yandata, meaning "village." Wyandotte is a variant spelling.[4]
References
- ↑ George Thornton Fleming. History of Pittsburgh and Environs: From prehistoric days to the beginning of the American Revolution, vol. 1, pp. 148–149. American Historical Society, New York and Chicago, 1922. Google Books 7ctaAAAAYAAJ, ffQMAAAAYAAJ, S88wAQAAMAAJ, tzUafgt-eskC; HathiTrust 011262563; Historic Pittsburgh 01aee9405m; Internet Archive historypittsbur01compgoog, historypittsbur01socigoog, historypittsbur01yorkgoog. [view source] fleming-history
- ↑ George T. Fleming. "History recalled by street names: Stanwix brings to mind many important happenings in the early days of the Western Pennsylvania settlement." Pittsburgh Gazette Times, Dec. 6, 1914, sec. 2, p. 8. Newspapers.com 85907599. [view source] fleming-history-recalled
- ↑ Annie Clark Miller. Early Land Marks and Names of Old Pittsburgh: An address delivered before the Pittsburgh Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution at Carnegie Institute, Nov. 30, 1923, p. 8. Pittsburgh Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution, 1924. Historic Pittsburgh 00awn8211m; Internet Archive earlylandmarksna00mill. [view source] miller
- ↑ William Bright. Native American Placenames of the United States, p. 575. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 2004, ISBN 978-0-8061-3598-4. [view source] bright
