![]() There is another possibility: that savannah was an Algonquian word already in use among area tribes and completely unrelated to savanna, but they just happened to sound the same. ![]() They might have referred to themselves or the landscape as "Savannah" or it may be the South Carolinians just couldn't pronounce their tribe name correctly and it came out sounding like "Savannah" whenever English people said it. That is, perhaps, how it was acquired by the migrating Shawnee who drove out the Westo tribe and made their home along the Savannah River. The word savannais one the Spanish may have picked up from the Taíno Indians in the Caribbean, then fed back to other Indians on the North American mainland. There are a couple of points I need to review (because I have no problem correcting myself or clarifying a muddy issue).įurther discussion on Facebook with my fellow tour guides reveals the origins of the name "Savannah" to be very murky indeed. ![]()
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