White River
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- proper noun
- Richard Stirk, a white man living in the White River settlement, confirmed Eastman's suspicion in a 1906 interview with Eli Ricker.
- White River Utes
- White River settlement
Examples
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And then we were settled for a permanent home on the White River, as I have told you before; but only once for a short while did we stay at the agency, during the haying time, and from then on we lived continuously at home, trying to raise cattle.
Academic text (1998) -
Adding to the problem, in 1885, the Uintah and White River women joined together to openly oppose the education of their children in white boarding schools because of health concerns for the children.
Academic text (2016) -
The attack she mentioned on the White River settlement was repeated in other locations.
Academic text (1998) -
Symbol A is a horse whose unusual length represents a long journey from the White River Agency to the Uintah Basin in Utah.
Academic text (2016) -
The final scene depicts the Uintah with the peace pipe on the left and the White River reaching for the pipe on the right.
Academic text (2016) -
What did Leta feel when she crested the Pine Ridge south of Chadron and surveyed the White River Valley one last time?
Academic text (1990) -
In 1906, about 300 to 700 Indians, primarily White River Utes, made the trek to the Sioux reservation located near Fort Meade, South Dakota.
Academic text (2016) -
The White River Utes were actually composed of smaller groups: the Yampatika (Wild Carrot Eaters) and Parianuche (Elk People).
Academic text (2016) -
This was a settlement (along the White River) of all mixed bloods, and all their belongings, poor people, had been wrecked, and only goods, blankets, quilts, and perhaps a cooking utensil or dish here and there had been taken; such things as were easily carried away.
Academic text (1998) -
Visitors can enjoy fishing along the banks of the White River in northern Arkansas.
Surface Forms
Morphology
White + river
The phrase is an adjectival place name built from 'White' + 'river', so a learner who knows both words will readily infer it denotes a river (i.e., a river called or described as 'White'). They may not know the specific geographic details (that it is a tributary of the Mississippi), but the basic referential meaning is transparently derivable and follows common cross‑linguistic naming patterns.
Etymology
White River may come from early settlers who saw the water and banks looking very pale and called them white, so that picture became the name of the river.