Priya Indian. Neerja Indian. Zira US English. Oliver British. Wendy British. Fred US English. Tessa South African. How to say Des Moines in sign language? Dan Houston : We don't anticipate much in the way of employees relocating to Des Moines , this isn't the center of the universe.
Mike Draper : was really the beginning of people moving downtown in a big way, i think it's part of the zeitgeist nationally. The Atlantic Molly Ball : The Rand Paul campaign, which once showed so much promise, is now officially on death watch, it's never a good look for your campaign when every interview with the Des Moines Register starts with: 'so are you dropping out,'.
Rick Ryan : He's aware of the decline in the labor force in America, not just in Indiana or Des Moines or anywhere else, jobs are going overseas.
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Create a new account. Log In. Powered by CITE. Are we missing a good definition for Des Moines? Don't keep it to yourself Submit Definition. The ASL fingerspelling provided here is most commonly used for proper names of people and places; it is also used in some languages for concepts for which no sign is available at that moment. I always thought the French named it for the monks, or moines , in the area. The city was named for the Des Moines River, which was indeed named by French explorers.
In the indigenous Miami-Illinois language, moingona meant a road or a portage a path for carrying a boat and supplies between waterways. The word referred specifically to a path that a local tribe of the Illinois nation also called the Moingona used to circumvent rapids on the river near where it joins the Mississippi at the southeastern corner of Iowa. A French map, based on the explorations of Marquette and Joliet, shows a Moingona village, marked as Moingwena, along a river that runs into the Mississippi.
English speakers used the name as well. The historian Virgil J. He quotes from an early 19th-century account of the meeting of Marquette, Joliet, and the Moingona people:. The name which they gave to their settlement was Mouin-gouinas or Moingona , as laid down in the ancient maps of the country , and is a corruption of the Algonkin word Mikonang , signifying at the road ; the Indians, by their customary elliptical manner of designating localities, alluding, in this instance, to the well-known road in this section of country, which they used to follow as a communication between the head of the lower rapids and their settlement on the river that empties itself into the Mississippi, so as to avoid the rapids.
All this preceded the existence of the city, of course. In , a military post was established in central Iowa where the Des Moines and Raccoon Rivers intersect. In May of , Captain James Allen and a company of cavalrymen from Fort Sanford arrived on the site of the recommended base. Many historians agree that the opening of the fort was the beginning of the City of Des Moines. Many cities are usually named after someone who discovered or settled the area or for something specific to that area.
The name for the City of Des Moines, however, has a little bit of a mystery to it. Before settlers came through the Midwest, there were many Native American tribes throughout the area. Many were located near bodies of water such as rivers. This loosely means river of mounds or the mounds. When the people in these areas buried those who had passed, they were put in burial mounds, usually found near the rivers.
Since French explorers were some of the first in the area, many of the rivers and streams that were used often for traveling were French words or phrases. As settlers came into the area, a group of reformed-Catholic monks called Trappist Monks also found a place to live.
They had left France during the French Revolution to get away from the violence. The monks lived in huts at the American Bottom at the mouth of the river.
The spelling of the name of our city has been found in various ways as well.
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