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To: SkyDancer

“Meanwhile the natives called it?”

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12 posted on 07/12/2018 2:41:54 PM PDT by catnipman ((Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!))
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To: catnipman
In talking with some natives they just referred to the area as The World or in Navajo: Diné bikéyah or Dinétah. The word for North America that is used today is Náhook&491;sjí Kéyah dah siʼánígíí.

One source:https://www.quora.com/What-did-the-native-people-call-the-American-continents

13 posted on 07/12/2018 2:52:05 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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