Tywappity Bottoms

Alan Hartley ahartley at d.umn.edu
Sat Mar 13 21:09:32 UTC 2004


Does anyone know the origin of the name Tywappety (Bottoms), given a
town on the Mississippi in SE Missouri in 1797? When the village was
founded c1790, it was called Ze-wa-pe-ta, which looks quite a bit more
Siouan. It was apparently (the Web link is now dead) shown on an 1824
map as Tywapatia.

Thanks for any hints,

Alan



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