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Kekionga ( meaning " blackberry bush ")< ref > According to J. Dunn, Jr., the name " usually said to mean " blackberry patch ," or " blackberry bush ," this plant being considered an emblem of antiquity because it sprang up on the sites of old villages.
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Kekionga and .
He developed trading at the Kekionga, a center of the Miami people.
In 1789, Kinzie lost his business in the Kekionga ( modern Fort Wayne, Indiana ) and had to move further from the western U. S. frontier.
In October 1780, La Balme plundered the principal Miami village of Kekionga ( present-day Fort Wayne ), as part of his campaign to attack the British in Detroit.
The expedition had done no serious harm to the enemies of Vincennes, but it distracted some of the Wabash villages while Josiah Harmar, now a General, led a much larger expedition up through Ohio country towards Kekionga.
To meet the threat, he dispatched Jean Baptiste Bissot, Sieur de Vincennes to establish a trading post and fort at Kekionga, present day Fort Wayne, Indiana.
* Miami Indian History, images of Pacanne, Little Turtle, and Jean Baptiste de Richardville displayed, along with collections on the Miami Indian capital, Kekionga.
Long occupied by successive cultures of indigenous peoples, Kekionga was a large village of the historical Miami people at the time of European encounter.
Under Jean Baptiste Bissot, Sieur de Vincennes, the Canadiens established a trading post and fort, first at the St. Joseph River, and later at Kekionga.
Kekionga remained a central site for the Miami for several decades, compared to other of their villages that were more temporary.
In 1733, Kekionga was struck by a smallpox epidemic ; its people evacuated the village for a year.
In a speech at the Treaty of Greenville ( 1795 ), Little Turtle called Kekionga " that glorious gate ... through which all the good words of our chiefs had to pass from the north to the south, and from the east to the west.
In 1749, the pro-British La Demoiselle left Kekionga to establish the English trading village of Pickawillany, which grew rapidly.
French officials tried to persuade the Miami to return to Kekionga, which was near their stronghold of Detroit and harder for the British to reach.
In the same year, the pro-French chief Cold Foot died in another smallpox epidemic at Kekionga.
Most of the surviving Miami returned to Kekionga.
The Miami of Kekionga became involved in Pontiac's Rebellion in the spring of 1763, capturing the British garrison and killing the two ranking officers.
By 1765, Kekionga had accepted the British.
In 1780 during the American Revolutionary War, Kekionga was sacked by a force of French Americans led by Colonel Augustin de la Balme, who planned to take Detroit from the British.
In 1790, the Canadian Governor Guy Carleton warned the government in London that the loss of Kekionga would result in grave economic hardships to Detroit.
He estimated that Kekionga annually produced 2000 packs of pelts, worth about £ 24, 000 sterling.
Kekionga and on
The Legion arrived at Kekionga on 17 September 1794, and Wayne personally selected the site for the new U. S. fort, which was named for him.
Wayne's Legion arrived at Kekionga on 17 September 1794, and Wayne personally selected the site for the new U. S. fort.
Kekionga and villages
Although Hay and Kinzie stayed primarily in the French-speaking village in Kekionga, they also described some of the Miami villages.
His army counted seven distinct villages in the vicinity of Kekionga, known collectively as " the Miami Towns " or Miamitown.
The collected villages of Kekionga had advance knowledge of the army, and most of the people evacuated the area, carrying as many of their food stores as possible.
Major Ebenezer Denny, an officer with the US, drew a map of Kekionga in 1790, which showed a collection of eight distinct villages, surrounded by 500 acres of cornfields.
meaning and blackberry
The generic name means blackberry in Latin and was derived from the word ruber, meaning " red ".
The term ' bramble ', a word meaning any impenetrable scrub, has traditionally been applied specifically to the blackberry or its products, though in the United States it applies to all members of the Rubus genus.
meaning and bush
The name dan cong is often misinterpreted as meaning the tea is all picked from a single bush, grove, or clone.
Galagos, also known as bushbabies, bush babies or nagapies ( meaning " little night monkeys " in Afrikaans ), are small, nocturnal primates native to continental Africa, and make up the family Galagidae ( also sometimes called Galagonidae ).
Although strictly meaning thicket, maquis could be roughly translated as " the bush ".
ZZ Top's song " Tush " uses the prosaic and risque meaning in exact equal portion, as in the band's native Texas " tush " has two meanings: when rhyming with " bush " refers to the female buttocks but when rhyming with " rush " is a slang term for " good enough " or " adequate ".
Matagorda County is named for the canebrakes which once grew along the coast ( Matagorda is a Spanish word meaning " thick bush ").
After the lapsang souchong tea was used for producing black tea so called Min Hong ( meaning " Black tea produced in Fujian "), people started to move the tea bush to different places like Keemun, India and Ceylon.
The common English name is probably derived from Common West Germanic * brâma, meaning bramble or a thorny bush.
The Ngarrindjeri people of the Murray River and Coorong regions called it Waatji pulyeri, meaning " little one of the waatji ( lignum ) bush ", and the Gunai called it Deeydgun, meaning " little bird with long tail ".
Another meaning for Ikot in Ibibio land is bush.
The only public transport that covers these routes is privately owned bush taxis or mini-buses run by private groups known as GICs ( French acronym meaning " group d ' initiative commune ").
It is a derogatory term meaning " bush people.
The bush rat exhibits sexual dimorphism, meaning that the males are larger than the females in the species.
An alternative meaning is the ghost of somebody who died in the bush and has no grave.
Nyika is a Swahili word meaning " bush " or " hinterland " ( of the East African coast ).
Their Wailaki name was Tul ' bush, meaning " foreigners.
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