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  • fubo@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    America has a lot of place names that come from Native American / First Nations languages; but they also come via different European languages.

    And some of those names are actually words that refer to a different Native group. “Arkansas” and “Kansas” are from the Osage word for the Quapaw people. The name of the Snake River between Oregon and Idaho is a translation of the name that Plains people used to refer to the Shoshone: they were the “snake people” and that wasn’t a compliment.