turtle island
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.88 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
name
The Earth.
Example Sentences
- "If dispossession has defined recent centuries of Turtle Island history, then this fact has been well accommodated in official U.S. discourse."
- "Native peoples see the continent as Turtle Island (a concept brought to a wider audience by ecospirit poetry of Gary Snyder). The continental Turtle can be seen in two ways, with its head either to the north or south."
- "Tears had flowed with the tide of settlers all the way to the western shores of Turtle Island. When Chief Seattle signed the 1855 Port Elliott Treaty, surrendering his lands to the Washington governor,[…]"
- "For me, Cherokee Stories of the Turtle Island Liars' Club represents a coming together of the concerns of my published work as a scholar and my personal journey home to learn from my elders."
Etymology
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.