ken-ta-ke

Updated: June 2, 2025

They eventually reached the Mississippi River and, having taken a good quantity of peltry on the way, they launched upon the stream and came in time to New Orleans, where they made a satisfactory trade of their furs. * Kentucky, from Ken-ta-ke, an Iroquois word meaning "the place of old fields." Adair calls the territory "the old fields."

Constance Lindsay Skinner - Pioneers of the Old Southwest: a chronicle of the dark and bloody ground