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ALABAMA        - A Creek Indian word for "tribal town."
ALASKA	       - The Russian version of the Eskimo word "alakshak," 
                     which means "peninsula."
ARIZONA	       - A Pima Indian word meaning "little spring place."
ARKANSAS       - The French version of the Sioux word "acansa" or 
                     "downstream place."
CALIFORNIA     - Named for the imaginary island of Califia, in "Las Serges 
                     de Esplandian," a Spanish romance written in 1510.
COLORADO       - The Spanish word for "red."
CONNECTICUT    - A Mohican word meaning "long river place."
DELAWARE       - Named for Lord De La Warr, governor of Virginia.
FLORIDA        - Named "Flowery Easter" by explorer Ponce de Leon on 
                     Easter Sunday, 1513.
GEORGIA        - Named in honor of King George of England.
HAWAII         - From Hawaiki or Owhyhee, Polynesian for "homeland".
IDAHO          - The Kiowa Apache name for the Camanches.
ILLINOIS       - An Algonquin Indian word for "warrior."
INDIANA        - Simply, "Land of the Indians."
IOWA           - An Indian word for "beautiful land."
KANSAS         - A sioux word meaning "south wind people."
KENTUCKY       - An Indian word meaning "meadow land of tomorrow."
LOUISIANA      - Named in honor of King Louis XIV (The Sun King) of France.
MAINE          - The name of an ancient French province.
MARYLAND       - Named for Queen Henrietta Maria, wife of Charles I of England.
MASSACHUSETTS  - A Massachusetts Indian word meaning "large hill place."
MICHIGAN       - A Chippewa word for "cloudy or sky-tinted water."
MINNESOTA      - A Dakota Sioux word for "great river."
MISSISSIPPI    - From two Algonquin word, "missi" (great) and "sipi" (river).
MISSOURI       - An Algonqin word for "muddy water."
MONTANA        - Latin for "mountainous."
NEBRASKA       - A word in the Omaha or Otoe language meaning "broad or flat 
                    water."
NEVADA         - The Spanish word for "snow clad."
NEW HAMPSHIRE  - Named for a town in England.
NEW JERSEY     - Named for England's Isle of Jersey.
NEW MEXICO     - A Spanish term which signified all of the land north and 
                    west of the Rio Grande.
NEW YORK       - Named for the Duke of York.
NORTH CAROLINA - Named in honor of Charles I of England.
NORTH DAKOTA   - Sioux for "friend or ally."
OHIO           - Iroquois for "good river."
OKLAHOMA       - Chocktaw word meaning "red man."
OREGON         - Perhaps named for "Ouaricon-sint," a river on Wisconsin.
PENNSYLVANIA   - King Charles II suggested the Sylvania, then added Penn 
                    in front in honor of Admiral William Penn.
RHODE ISLAND   - Named Roode Eyelant by Dutch explorer Adriaen Block, 
                    because of its red clay soil.
SOUTH CAROLINA - See North Carolina.
SOUTH DAKOTA   - See North Dakota.
TENNESSEE      - From the word "tansi," which means "village" in Cherokee.
TEXAS          - An Indian word which means "friend or ally."
UTAH           - From a Navajo word meaning "higher up."
VERMONT        - A compilation of two French words: Vert (green) and 
                    mont (mountain).
VIRGINIA       - Named by Sir Walter Raleigh in honor of Elizabeth, the 
                    Virgin Queen of England.
WASHINGTON     - Named to honor the nation's first president, George Washington.
WEST VIRGINIA  - Named when western counties of Virginia refused to secede 
                    from the Union in 1863.
WISCONSIN      - A Chippewa word for "grassy place."
WYOMING        - An Algonquin word meaning "large prairie place."