Many places in the United States are named after countries and foreign cities, despite having no direct connection to them. Names like New Mexico, Gulf of Mexico, and Mexico Public Library in Maine ...

You might think: Hold on, there. Most of these places were undoubtedly named after the Americas’ most famous stuffing receptacle. But that bird’s name hails from that most Old World of countries.

This is a project to document in one place all the Indigenous place names known for Colorado. Eventually, we plan to have a scroll-over map, and ideally sound recordings of each name. Prior to that, ...