Derived from an S-shaped gesture the Shoshone made with their hands to represent swimming salmon; explorers misinterpreted it to represent a serpent, giving the river its present-day name
Named for Henry _____, an Englishman sailing for the Netherlands, who explored it in 1609
Named for Robert _____, a ship's master who died at the mouth of the river in 1612
After _____ Point, the location of the ratification of a Treaty
From Creek 'marked rock'
From the Cree term Cree kisiskāciwani-sīpiy, meaning 'swift flowing river'
After Alexander _____, the Scots-Canadian explorer
French for Saint Lawrence
After the Bay, named for Thomas West, Baron __ __ ____, first English colonial governor of Virginia
From the Spanish Los _____ de Dios, or 'the arms of God' There are several different explanations for the name, all involving it being the first water to be found by desperately thirsty parties
From the tribe noted by Captain John Smith
Named after Indians whose name derives from an Algonquian word meaning 'people at the falls', 'roily water people', or 'muddy current'
From the Woods Cree word, '[where] there are plants one after another', likely a reference to the spotty vegetation along the river
Probably from Unami Delaware ahkinkèshaki, 'place of sharp ground'
Named for Captain Robert Gray’s ship _____ Rediviva, the first to travel up the river
From an Athabaskan language (e.g., Koyukon yookkene, Lower Tanana yookuna)
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