Articles by brankin
place-name etymology
Posted June 08, 2006 at 10:13 PM
Two kinds of colonial naming: erasure and appropriation. But when it's always the colonists doing the naming, is one really preferable to the other? The recently created Nunavut (Inuktitut for "our land") is perhaps the only exception in the hemisphere.
Colored regions show names from the same language family (as categorized by the [...]
