Editing Allegheny River (section)

==Etymology==
[[File:Gwash map01.jpg|thumb|In this sketch by [[George Washington]], the Allegheny River is named '''Ohio''']]
The name ''Allegheny'' probably comes from [[Lenape language|Lenape]] ''welhik hane''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.talk-lenape.org/detail.php?id=10687 |title=welhik |work=Lenape Talking Dictionary |access-date=December 14, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111004214046/http://www.talk-lenape.org/detail.php?id=10687 |archive-date=October 4, 2011}}</ref><ref>"Heckewelder here does not give the strict meaning of ''hanne''. The word in common use among Algonkin [i.e., Algonquian] tribes for river is ''sipu'', and this includes the idea of 'a stream of flowing water'. But in the mountainous parts of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia ''sipu'' did not sufficiently convey the idea of a rapid stream, roaring down mountain gorges, and ''hanne'' takes its place to designate not a mere ''sipu'', or flowing river, but a rapid mountain stream." {{cite journal |author=Russell, Erret |year=1885 |title=Indian Geographical Names |journal=[[Magazine of Western History]] |volume=2 |issue=1 |pages=53–59 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p2oKAQAAMAAJ}}</ref> or ''oolikhanna,'' which means 'best flowing river of the hills' or 'beautiful stream'.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Composition of Indian Geographical Names |author=Trumbull, J. Hammond |author-link=James Hammond Trumbull |year=1870 |publisher=Case, Lockwood & Brainard|location=Hartford, Connecticut |pages=13–14 |url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/18279/18279-h/18279-h.htm}}</ref> There is a [[Lenape]] legend of a tribe called "Talligewi" who used to live along the river.<ref name="Stewart"/> [[Frederick Webb Hodge]] cited [[Henry Schoolcraft]] to connect the "Talligewi" to the [[Cherokee]].<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Hodge |editor1-first=Frederick Webb |date=1907 |title=Handbook of American Indians north of Mexico |url=https://archive.org/details/handbookamindians02hodgrich |location=Washington |publisher=Government Printing Office |pages=[https://archive.org/details/handbookamindians02hodgrich/page/245 245]-249}}</ref>

The following account of the origin of the name ''Allegheny'' was given in 1780 by Moravian missionary [[David Zeisberger]]: "All this land and region, stretching as far as the creeks and waters that flow into the Alleghene the Delawares called Alligewinenk, which means 'a land into which they came from distant parts'. The river itself, however, is called Alligewi Sipo. The whites have made Alleghene out of this, the [[Iroquois Confederacy|Six Nations]] calling the river the Ohio."<ref>{{cite book |title=David Zeisberger's History of the Northern American Indians in 18th Century Ohio, New York and Pennsylvania |author=Zeisberger, David |author-link=David Zeisberger |year=1999 |publisher=Wennawoods Publishing |isbn=1-889037-17-6 |page=33}}</ref>

The [[Delaware Tribe of Indians]] gives the Lenape name as ''Alikehane'', "river where footprints can be seen."<ref>{{cite web|title=Allegheny River (River where footprints can be seen)|url=https://www.talk-lenape.org/detail?id=18498|publisher=Lenape Talking Dictionary|access-date=2023-12-13|date=2023}}</ref>

Native Americans, including the Lenape and [[Iroquois]], considered the Allegheny and Ohio rivers as the same, as is suggested by a New York State road sign on [[Interstate 86 (east)|Interstate 86]] that refers to the Allegheny River also as ''Ohiːyo'''.<ref name="Stewart">{{Cite book |title=Names on the Land |url=https://archive.org/details/namesonlandhisto0000stew |url-access=registration |last=Stewart |first=George R. |publisher=Houghton Mifflin Company |year=1967 |isbn=0-938530-02-X |location=Boston, Massachusetts |page=[https://archive.org/details/namesonlandhisto0000stew/page/8 8]}}<!-- |access-date=2009-05-10--></ref> The [[Geographic Names Information System]] lists ''O-hee-yo'' and ''O-hi-o'' as variant names.<ref name="GNIS1"/> The river is called Ohi:'i:o` (river beautiful) in the [[Seneca language]].<ref name="sacredtexts">{{cite web |title=Glossary of Seneca Words |url=http://www.sacred-texts.com/nam/iro/parker/cohl167.htm |website=Internet Sacred Text Archive}}</ref> In New York, areas around the river are often named with the alternate spelling ''Allegany'' in reference to the river; for example, the Village of Allegany and [[Allegany State Park]]. [[Port Allegany]], located along the river in Pennsylvania near the border with New York, also follows this pattern.