12/06/2025
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Did you know this? 🇺🇸
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The United States of America contains 50 states, and 27 state names are based in American Indian languages:
- Alabama (Choctaw)
- Alaska (Aleut)
- Arizona (O’odham)
- Arkansas (Illinois)
- Connecticut (Algonquian)
- Hawaii (Kanaka Maoli)
- Idaho (Apache)
- Illinois (Algonquian language group, probably Miami)
- Iowa (Dakota)
- Kansas (Kansas)
- Kentucky (Seneca)
- Massachusetts (Narragansett)
- Michigan (Ottawa)
- Minnesota (Dakota)
- Mississippi (Ojibwe)
- Missouri (Missouri)
- Nebraska (Chiwere)
- New Mexico (Nahuatl)
- North and South Dakota (Dakota)
- Ohio (Seneca)
- Oklahoma (Choctaw)
- Tennessee (Cherokee)
- Texas (Caddo)
- Utah (Apache)
- Wisconsin (Miami)
- Wyoming (Lenape)
As long as these states use our language, future generations will always have a thread to pull that can lead them back to traditional languages & culture.
What are your thoughts after learning that Indigenous languages are used on a daily basis like this? 🤔
