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North America

LC control no.sh 85092455
Geographic headingNorth America
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Geographic subdivision usageNorth America
Variant(s)Turtle Island (Continent)
Found inTurtle Island news, Oct. 24, 2001
Read, listen, tell, ©2017: title page (indigenous stories from Turtle Island) page 9 (Turtle Island, a geographical body of land that does not recognize the borders drawn by Mexico, Canada, or the United States)
The Canadian encyclopedia, online, viewed 9 September 2020: Turtle Island (Turtle Island refers to the continent of North America for some Indigenous peoples; name comes from various Indigenous oral histories that tell stories of a turtle that holds the world on its back)