<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><HTML><FONT SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">The name Nodaway looks like it derives from a reflex in one or another Algonquian language of Proto-Algonquian *na:tawe:wa 'massasauga', the source of the name Nottoway for the Northern Iroquoian people of southeastern Virginia. Frank Siebert did an article on the word in the Winter 1996 issue of Anthropological Linguistics.</FONT></HTML>