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Indiana comes from English "land of the Indians"
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#2131 (Iowa would be next, alphabetically, see above)
Kansas follows Iowa, see Arkansas.
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#2132 Kentucky
It comes from an Iroquois word for 'meadow land'
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Louisiana was named for King Louis XIV of France.
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Maine is named after a French Province
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Maryland is named after Henrietta Maria, queen to Charles I
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Massachusetts comes from an Algonquian word for 'place of the big hill'
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Michigan comes from a Chippewa word for 'big water'.
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Minnesota comes from a Dakota Sioux term for 'sky-colored water'.
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(damn telephone)
Mississippi (as an aside, studying the novel Sansibar, oder der letzte Grund in Germany and all the allusions to Huck Finn drove the Germans crazy, with all the Native American terms/spellings that I was quite used to. Oh well)
this one comes from the Chippewa for 'big river'
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Missouri (that's miz-oo-ree if you live north of the mason-dixon line, and miz-oo-ruh if you're south of it  ).
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Montana
comes from the Spanish for 'mountains'
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Nebraska comes from an Omaha term for 'river in the flatness'
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Nevada comes from the Spanish for snowy.
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(numbers got off again, darn it)
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New Hampshire is named after an English county.
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