Turtle Island

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Turtle Island

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

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name Native American name for North America

Français	île de la Tortue

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"Turtle Island." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/turtle%20island. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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"Turtle Island." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/turtle%20island.

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@misc{turtle_island_2026,
  title = {Turtle Island},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/turtle%20island},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}