Turtle Island

专有名词

英文释义

专有名词
  1. North America.
    — If dispossession has defined recent centuries of Turtle Island history, then this fact has been well accommodated in official U.S. discourse.
  2. The Earth.

词源

From turtle + island, based on the role of a turtle's back acting as the base for the world while being surrounded by water in the creation stories of multiple tribes of the Northeastern Woodlands region of North America as well as Algonquian- and Iroquoian-speaking peoples. Specific groups with such myths include the Lenape people, the Haudenosaunee, the Ojibwe people, and the Cree.
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