An indigenous thing I am guessing. Especially since Montana and its surroundings were one of the areas that was the last to resist European colonization. Although the mapmaker shouldn’t have listed it as ‘nature,’ unless they’re talking about a beaver lodge or something, but I’m doubtful.
I have a theory on this. Wikipedia’s list of municipalities in Montana shows three “lodge” place names: Deer Lodge, Lodge Grass, and Red Lodge. The pages for Deer Lodge and Red Lodge don’t explain their names, but the one for Lodge Grass does. It’s a mistranslation of the Crow name for the place, but it does refer to the actual grass in the area. So now the author has two with no answer found and one with a natural explanation
…“Lodge”? 🤨 TIL
An indigenous thing I am guessing. Especially since Montana and its surroundings were one of the areas that was the last to resist European colonization. Although the mapmaker shouldn’t have listed it as ‘nature,’ unless they’re talking about a beaver lodge or something, but I’m doubtful.
I have a theory on this. Wikipedia’s list of municipalities in Montana shows three “lodge” place names: Deer Lodge, Lodge Grass, and Red Lodge. The pages for Deer Lodge and Red Lodge don’t explain their names, but the one for Lodge Grass does. It’s a mistranslation of the Crow name for the place, but it does refer to the actual grass in the area. So now the author has two with no answer found and one with a natural explanation