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If all US states and cities used names of Native American Origin

author: Aofen/reddit, added on: 2025-06-08


If all US states and cities used names of Native American Origin

Aofen:

Note, only some of these names are in current use in any native language. Most of them derive from settlements that formerly existed on the site of the modern city, but many others are simply the name for a nearby geographical feature or tribe that inhabited the area. Some of the state names, such as Tsenacomaca, are based on actual native names for large areas of land, but most are simply the name of the predominant tribe in the area (Iowa, Texas, Shoshone, Calusa, etc.)


Collection: placenames - Tags: us, native-americans, indigenous - Source: reddit.com