🇬🇧 BRIT Rugby Fan Reacts To HOW EACH AMERICAN STATE GOT ITS NAME!
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He pronounces it like “see you” but the word Sioux is pronounced “sue” in so far as I personally have ever heard it.
Thanks for the correction mate
Additionally, there were other mispronounced words. The Allegheny river is Pronounced Ala gay nee, I can't remember the others without going through it again. But I love long words. I thought he mispronounced the name of the Mexican (actually Mayan [my Ann] ) city too.
My love for long words started when I was little. My mom, my older sister and I were driving through a town that my sister couldn't pronounce. In hindsight I think she was just pretending because I was laughing so hard. Town name is Poughkeepsie (Poh kip see). There is a river in west PA called The Monongahela. (ma non ga hay la).
Yes, it’s definitely pronounced sue, my sleep away camp I went to as a kid made sure to let us know that 😂
@@TransparentEclipse Which should be pretty obvious based on the french spelling we gave it. OUX is usually used in that way. I've always heard it pronounced "Sue".
New York was originally a Dutch colony named New Amsterdam. When it was captured by the British and renamed New York, many wealthy Dutch Settlers switched their loyalties to England, obviously to retain their wealth and influence. These families remained among the social and financial elite of New York well into modern times - fifth cousins Teddy and Franklin Roosevelt were among their descendants.
That’s an interesting piece of history!
You and I are cousins. The Roosevelts occupy the same place in my family tree.
"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," and other stories by Washington Irving are set in Dutch towns in upstate NY. There are still original Dutch homes in the area.
@@reindeer7752 you never know where you find a cousin. I found one on a Facebook group.
And Wall Street in NYC got it's name from the wall on Manhattan that protected the city from attacks by the British.
The narrator is Portuguese and his Spanish is ok but he definitely mispronounces the first r in Spanish words as well as the name of several native tribes. But he is awesome don't get me wrong.
I see, I really want to learn Spanish or Portuguese maybe I should download Rosetta Stone tonight
Yeah I caught a few mispronounced tribes but he gets a pass. I couldn't pronounce Portuguese much either.
@@kabirconsiders As a Spanish speaker myself it is easier than Portuguese and as a Romanic language you will be able to understand the other ones such as Italian. Even though I don't speak it I was amazed when I first heard Italians speaking and understood a good portion of what they were saying. Spanish is also a phonetically correct language unlike English with its silent consonants.
I was going to say his accent sounded portuguese.
@@xoxxobob61 Yeah the transition between English and Spanish is meant to be an easier one as lots of words are similar. I believe they came from the same langue family. There’s lots of cognates so it makes sense. Words like interesante for example.
I can see why he leaves this detail out - since it has no bearing on its modern name - but the Dutch settled the area around New York city before the English,
So, New York was originally New Amsterdam.
“ even old New York was once New Amsterdam. Why they changed it? I can’t say. People just liked it better that way.” - They might be giants
No way! I wonder if there are any geographical references to Amsterdam in New York
@@kabirconsiders There are many. Brooklyn, Staten Island, the Bronx, are all from the Dutch language. There are others, but those are the ones I remember off the top of my head.
@@kabirconsiders The neighborhood of Harlem is named after the Dutch city of Haarlem, Brooklyn is named after the village of Breukelen, and Wall Street was originally called Waal Straat.
@@kabirconsiders There is, you gor the mariguana district, the red light disctrict and the hooker street walker district. Just like in Amsterdam. 😎👍
To correct something he said here, Ojibwe isn't pronounced "oh-weeb-wey", it's "oh-jib-way". They're the main native group here in Minnesota and hence their names are all over, from Mahtomedi (a St. Paul suburb) to Bde Maka Ska (the biggest lake in the city of Minneapolis). Also Minnesota is better translated as "clear waters that reflect the sky" which would make sense given our many freshwater lakes.
Thanks for correcting him, if you hadn’t had said this I would never have known
Dakota covered more land in Minnesota and bde maka ska is Dakotan
True also where the Los Angeles Lakers got their name
@@StellarisEmblem Dakota mostly covered the Rural area of present Minnesota but most people live where the Ojibwe people lived aka the Twin Cities which is why there is more names derived from Ojibwe instead of Dakota
@@strigiformes5434 generally ojibwe were north east of the twin cities dakota were in the current twin cities area. www.mnhs.org/fortsnelling/learn/military-history/expansionist-era
As a American, this is a great watch. I knew none of this. Being Native American this is great to watch.
Even as a Brit I really enjoyed it, learned a heck of a lot
The state motto of Texas is Friendship. It’s a callback to the origin of the state name.
That’s pretty sweet
And Texas, for the most part, is a state of friendly people. Native Texan here, born and raised! 😊
I'm 56 now born and raised in Texas only been out of Texas less than 1a half years
This was a good one to react to Kabir, well done.
Thanks mate, I really enjoyed this one it was fascinating
@@kabirconsiders Yes it was.
@@kabirconsiders Coca-Cola 600 ready
In 4th Grade, due to a "play" I learned to sing all 50 states in alphabetical order, and still do occasionally to this day. (I can name all US Presidents in order as well; makes sense I am a historian and geographer now.)
Also, Oklahoma meaning "land of the red people". Oklahoma has been the most reliably "red state" since the 1950s, having only voting for a Democrat for President once in the past 70 years (1964).
I learned the fifty states in fifth grade. Fifty Nifty United States. In alphabetical order. That song still goes through my head almost fifty years later!
@Karin M Mine too but I admittedly will mess it up
You were quick to recognize the gentleman's proficiency in Spanish...
but it was interesting to hear him using the Spanish pronunciations on a number of J's and even a few H's in some of the non-Spanish names.
Fun clip.
I liked your thought on trying to imagine the experiences of people like Marquette.
It boggles the imagination sometimes to realize what a truly unknown (at least to them) world they were exploring.
I watched ‘The Revenant’ a few weeks back and it was terrific. Really portrayed what life was like for those first settlers and the hardships they faced. I’d really recommend it if you haven’t seen it
His pronunciation was mostly on point, with a couple of exceptions that stuck out. The S in "isla" should not be silent, and the U in "bautista" should be pronounced so that it sounds more like "bough-tee-stah" than "bah-tee-stah".
I grew up in the small town that grew from the trade settlement created at the place where Marquette first saw the Wisconsin River. It was a mile from the Fox River at that point which was a major trade river that eventually flowed into Lake Michigan at Green Bay. I sometimes stood on the bluffs above the river and tried to picture it without the buildings, roads, and farmers' fields. It still is pretty but must have been spectacular at that time.
Uh, “Spanish” as heard in Spain is significantly different from Spanish in the New World; thus…
In fact, iirc, the creator of the video is actually Chilean?
It’s pretty interesting to live in a place that reuses old world town or city names alongside place names used by our Native Brothers and Sisters.
I used to live in a city called Oshawa which means “a crossing place” in Ojibwa. The town to the west of us is Whitby (solid English name there) and the one to the east is Clarington (a portmanteau of Clarke and Darlington townships).
And interestingly enough, Toronto was originally named York and later renamed to the Mohawk word for the land north of Lake Ontario and south of Lake Simcoe.
It take is fascinating stuff. I really liked the names that included a word or modification of a words belonging to a native language, almost like paying homage
Utah is a Ute word meaning in the in tops of the mountains.
I had history classes all the time and I know that the state I live Michigan Derived from the Indian word Michigama, meaning great or large lake. Capital: Lansing, since 1847; prior to that, Detroit. three largest tribes are the Ojibwe (also called Chippewa), the Odawa (also called Ottowa) and the Potawatomi (also called the Bode'wadmi). They share common language, customs and beliefs. Before the French and British came here in the 1600s and 1700s, Michigan was home to several tribes.
Michigan currently has 12 federally recognized tribes.
Just discovered your channel. Loving it. Have you reacted to How The States Got Their Shapes? Very interesting and entertaining. It includes the reason so many states have little pan handles, to give each state a coastal/river waterway shipping access.
Forgive me if you have. Haven’t gone through all of your videos yet, but I’m trying.
That’s where I learned that Maine was was Northern Massachusetts lol!
@@susanstetson3435 Never, never say that where a Mainer can hear. Lol
I love finding out the origins of place names. A road in a town I grew up in is called Salem End Road. It got the name due to the Salem witch trials. Many that fled Salem to escape imprisonment ended in the area.
Now that’s a very interesting little piece of history, stuff related to witches and the like really interest me
@@kabirconsiders you might like to search for info about the Salem Witch trials. This event is really interesting & shocking at the same time. Oh, America your bad, what a history we have. Speaking of witches, I have heard the State of Wisconsin has the highest number of witches residing there than any other State. Like, how does someone know that? Wonder if there is a witch registry sheet at the local malls? Lol 😂 … the things we hear on the internet!
Will Penn actually didn’t name it, the King gave the name. Penn wanted it changed since he was embarrassed by the name haha
One funny thing to me is that people often overcorrect the pronunciation of Nevada to neh-VAH-da (even though the locals all pronounce it nuh-VAD-uh) because it's "closer to the original Spanish" yet they never overcorrect the off-the-wall pronunciations of Montana and Florida. XD
The city of Los Angeles comes from Spanish for Mother of Jesus, or specifically, "the Puebla Nuestra Senora La Regina de Los Angeles"..the town of Our Lady, Queen of the Angels".
BTW....Manhattan Island was first settled by the Dutch in 1624. New York City was originally called New Amsterdam (hence the New York "Knickerbockers", NBA team. )In 1664 the British took it over and changed the name to New York City.
Now that is a fascinating piece of history. Thanks for sharing this mate!
@@kabirconsiders What is now the heart of Manhattan was once a guy's farm. Legend says he was an apple farmer and that's where "big apple" nickname came from. That's not true though. "Big apple" was coined as a way of saying "the number one place" by a jazz musician who was basically saying "If you succeed in New York you've reached the top."
@@HoosierJedi do you know who that musician was as well? I'd love to know
@@Sowna18056 Not off the top of my head. Some guy from decades ago.
and "Santa Fe, NM", the country's oldest, smallest and highest elevation capital city was officially named "La Villa Real de la Santisima Fe de San Francisco de Asis" or (The Royal town of the Most Holy Faith of St. Francis of Asisi) in 1610 by Spain. Fun facts :)
Fun fact, the state New Mexico was actually named so before the country of Mexico.
Really?! Wow
@@kabirconsiders I was born and raised there and only recently learned this 😅 the state was named as a territory in 1563, which was about 250 years before the present day country was named Mexico. 🤯
@@treefeathers thanks for adding!
My first ancestors to come to America arrived either in 1613 on Captain Adrian Block's ship Tiger or on the later 1624 Dutch colonization of Manhattan ,depending upon which version one believes . Later they crossed the Appalachian mountains with Daniel Boone and were among the first settlers of Kentucky in 1780 ,another branch were the first settlers of western North Carolina . I am in awe of their balls and spirit of adventure and wonder what their lives must have been like and the things they experienced .
I live in Charlotte,NC named after Queen Charlotte hence why people call it "The Queen City"
I enjoyed this and I find it humorous that I’m a 60 yo lifetime US citizen and while knew many of the name origins, I didn’t know others. I’ve also lived in many of the states. Haha
In New York on Long Island alone, there are a multitude of towns with native American names! Like Ronkonkoma, Massapequa, Quogue, Setauket and Montauk just to name a few.
The Territory of Michigan was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from June 30, 1805, until January 26, 1837, when the final extent of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Michigan. Michigan was awarded to the United States in 1783. In 1787 it was made a part of the newly created Northwest Territory-along with the lands now constituting Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, and Wisconsin.
I’ve watched lots of your videos, mostly sports. But this is by far the most interesting and coolest video you have done. I’m an American and I claim to be really into American history, but this video taught me a lot! Thanks! Love stuff like this! Keep it up!
Western Montana is literally all mountains lol does that guy even leave his house?
It must be a popular destination for mountaineers. I’d love to visit and go for a hike
Montana goes like West=Mountain Middle=Hills and East=Flat not exactly but mainly 😂
He's Portuguese? He doesn't live in America
So many people don’t realize how huge Alaska is (if Alaska was cut into two, Texas would be the THIRD largest state). Have you reacted to any videos about comparing the size of Alaska to the Lower 48 states?
My dad was transferred from NYS The Finger Lakes to Cincinnati Ohio. When kids at school heard I was from NY. Everyone outside of NY thinks it means NYC. They seemed so enthralled & wanted to know if I went to parties every weekend. I almost broke out laughing. Just said No, it's just the same as Cincinnati. They just stared at me. Had to explain I lived closer to Niagara Falls. I kind of crushed their ideas.
My in-laws are from Jamestown, NY. It is very similar to Ohio, just with a northern (think nasal), accent.
As someone who lives in NYC, but travels often, I can totally relate. You wouldn't believe how many Americans confuse New York City (one small corner) with New York State (which is mostly rural and quite conservative).
Once while writing for a newspaper I questioned a story. I knew it was not true. The editor said when the legend becomes fact, print the legend. Idaho was my favorite! Fun content! 🌎✌️
Something that was missed about New York is that it was New Amsterdam before that. The English renamed it when they bought it from the Dutch.
Also the six most Northeast states are collectively called "New England" (those States being: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island), and place names around here are a toss up between places in England and Native American words. With random biblical references thrown in (there's a Canaan, New Hampshire for example).
Also, there are multiple States in New England that have the same place name - examples include Salem, Portsmouth, Manchester, and Concord.
And Plymouth lol
Kids often learn the 50 states in alphabetical order at school. There is a song that is taught in 4th or 5th grade. I learned it in the early 80s; my daughter learned it around 2020, in a different state, so it seems to be common practice.
There's a brand of beer in the US, from Minnesota, called Hamm's beer, whose ads have a jingle that starts out, "From the land of sky blue waters...", after the meaning of Minnesota.
The sports teams of the University of Illinois are called the Illini, after the Native American tribe.
Sounds like one cool jingle! I really use an ice cold Hamms right about now..
Im really enjoying all this random content on American culture . I'm American and dont know most of it
Oregon and other states: we need to remember that the natives were here longer than anyone, so unless it is known to have been of European origin, then the native origin is most likely correct because the person recording it (Rogers in Oregon) would have gotten it from natives and not just made up a name from another language or out of thin air. Also BigEar (spanish) and Hearing Water (Portuguese) could equally be references to the sound of the waterfalls. Both are Latinate languages and sound similar, but would still be a bastardization of the Native name of the river. That being said, there were more Spanish explorers in Oregon (once part of Colonial Spain remember) and almost no Portuguese or French. France was in the US but from Louisiana to the Canadian border (Louisiana Purchase) in the eastern half of the Central US.
Living in Maryland our capital is Annapolis, in Anne Arundel county, we have Prince George county. Others are very English as well such as Somerset, Prince Anne, Calvert, Charles, Saint Mary to name a few.
Yeah I’ve noticed that there are quite a lot of U.K. and US locations that share the same name, it’s pretty cool
@@kabirconsiders I asume that its also with new zealand and australia and canada
Michigan comes from a Chippewan word "Michigana" meaning "great or large lake" The following list of tribes and bands of American Indians who have lived in Michigan has been compiled from Hodge's Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico... and Swanton's Indian Tribes of North America I learned all that in history classes and I still remember when I had to do a lot of packets talking about Michigan and doing projects of Michigan and looking up the fun facts Of Michigan when I did projects and all that
Not Chippewas, Ojibwa. They are correctly Ojibwa.
@@LJBSullivan
One account maintain the Michigan name is based on a Native American Chippewa word, "meicigama," meaning "great water." Another version of the name claims the state gets its name from Lake Michigan and that Michigan is a French conversion of the Ojibwa word misshikama, which means "big lake,". Both tribe are Anishinaabe so the similarities are expected.
Rhode Island is the original name for Aquidneck Island, an island in Narragansett Bay which once had two settlements, Portsmouth and Newport (now home to the International Tennis Hall of Fame). Providence Plantations was the name for Roger Williams's colony on the mainland, at the tip of the bay (now the state's capital city of Providence). Eventually, all the settlements merged into the colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, and since that's quite a mouthful, they just shortened it to Rhode Island in everyday usage (and then officially in 2020).
Montana is not that mountainous? Huh? It’s only half covered by the Rockies.
😂
Big Horn Mountain ski hill is dope
That's what I thought 😂
Growing up in Utah I was taught the name came from the Ute tribes. also utah was almost called Deseret.
As others have pointed out, New York was called New Amsterdam, but this only included Manhattan as the other four boroughs weren't included in the city. The state was called New Netherlands.
This only went on for 38 years.
Texas from natives and Spanish is Tejas known as friendly which fits perfectly for Texas as we are a friendly state
You should maybe try to find a video about how cities got their names. Chicago basically means, 'smelly place'. Manhattan means, 'place to gather wood for bows'. Kansas City was named for the Kanza people that used to live here - KC was almost named, 'Opossum Trot', though. I don't know why they passed on that one!
That’s a sweet idea, I’ll put it on my list!
He said Hawai'i was the original spelling. It is the current spelling on the islands, still.
And the W is pronounced like a V
Havah-ee
Az is Indian for small spring. PHX is for the old aqua ducts they found that allowed a city to grow in the middle of a desert. So out of old arose new
Here's the origin of my city Tucson (pronounced Two-Sawn) in Arizona
The name of the city of Tucson derives from that given to Sentinel Mountain by [Tohono O’odham] Indians, Ts-iuk-shan, referring to the fact that the base of the mountain is darker than its summit. Hodge also says the Tu-uk-so-on means "black base.”.... Indians customarily name locations for nearby landmarks, hence the name of the now-vanished Indian community at the base of Sentinel Mountain. Spanish pronunciation yielded Tuqui Son or the current Tucson.
Super interesting, thanks for sharing this mate
I loved living in Tucson. Took my son to visit in 2005. Lived by Davis Monthan where my dad was stationed twice. Wish he had retired there but maybe one day I’ll move back.
All I know about Tucson is that if you take Mel Tillis back there, he'll get the job done...
Michigamme - Ojibwe word "mishigamaa" meaning "great water", also etymology for state of Michigan that’s what the natives called Michigan
That is what they called Lake Michigan...
As an American born and raised, I found this very interesting. Didn’t know most of this info.
I learned Michigan in World history classes and just regular history classes and online history classes I am still in history online and I am learning more about states and the renaissance and the history of Britain and the whole states and the native Americans and tribes and of course black history all that
I enjoy the nararator's style of speaking.
One theory I've heard a lot but haven't really done much research on (mostly because I never really bothered to learn the origins of state names) for Rhode Island is that way back when it was the separate provinces and plantains, when the area would flood all that could be visible to travel on were the roads, thus making it appear as though it was islands connected by roads and giving us Rhode Island. Once again I don't know if it's true but I've heard people use that theory quite often
I do know that New Mexico when the Mexicans referred to the territory north and west of the Rio Grande in the 16th century. May have been derived from the name of the Aztec war god, "Mexitli" still another interpretation is that it means "habitation of the god of war. Juan de Oñate came north from the Valley of Mexico with 500 Spanish settlers and soldiers and 7,000 head of livestock, founding the first Spanish settlement in New Mexico back on July 11, 1598.
You CAN definitely name all the States in one sitting! It's called the States song, and I learned that back in elementary school! I've been better off ever since 😂
Hello, from Maryland!!!! There is a Calvert County, and a Charles County, both in southern Maryland!!
Hello from london ☺️
Making those journeys now can be arduous. And i’m from the midwest (NW Indiana, near chicago and michigan).
New York New Jersey and New Hampshire are named after a British area. That's why they call it New England.
Of the states listed only New Hampshire is actually part of New England.
And Oklahoma - Choctaw is pronounced Chawk-tah
Fun facts about Arkansas - they do share pronunciation with Kansas, you're just saying Kansas wrong, it's Kan saw. The State Tree of Arkansas is an orange cone for construction areas, and the State Bird is just a trampoline that was picked up by a tornado.
You funny !
This can’t be real 😂
@@kabirconsiders Yeah it's a joke please don't say Kansaw. I grew up in Arkansas and it always ground my gears when people would say ar-kansas. edit - i just noticed i wasn't subbed, sorry man, fixed now.
Too funny!!! True fun fact about Kansas though. I lived in Kansas for about 7 years in the 90s because my first husband was active duty Army and we were stationed at Ft. Riley. The news station I watched was out of Topeka [about an hour away] and periodically there would be news involving the Arkansas river. However, the news reporters used to call it the Are-Kansas River!!! 😳 Took me a while to figure out that they were talking about the Arkansas River! 🤪😳😂
@@danajohnson4757 That is pretty funny. It's got to be a French pronunciation thing. Arkansas isn't Cajun, but it was part of the Louisiana Purchase, and everyone there has a Cajun cousin in the woodpile.
I know this video was a while ago but I'll add some context about New Mexico. There is a Mexico Valley where Mexico City currently is. A Spanish colonist went to New Mexico and it reminded him of the valley, so he named it "New" Mexico. Later on, the country was named after the same valley of Mexico. Interestingly, because of this, New Mexico was actually named that long before Mexico was ever called Mexico
Many of the States have Native American names not Spanish.
We also have many towns with French, and Native American names.
Well, example the grand Tetons. I know it's a mountain. French got along pretty well with native peoples. They wanted to trade not take over.
Here's an interesting subject as well, cicadas...... This year, a type of cicada will emerge after 17 years....
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I’ll put it on my list, thanks Nigel!
I LOVE that sweater! I mean jumper lol.
Thanks Naffy :)
The interesting thing about Idaho's name is that in Colorado there is an Idaho Springs.
Kabir, California is called the Golden State because gold was discovered in 1848 which caused a mass migration westward in search of gold (the gold rush). California became a state in 1849 because of the gold.
There is a professional football team called the San Francisco 49ers and an NBA (National Basketball Association) team known as the Golden State Warriors.
There is a river near where I live called the Loosahatchie. The joke is, it comes from two Chickasaw Indian words: Loosa, meaning mud, and Hatchie, meaning more mud.
The name for Iowa is indigenous originally, but, it's name comes from the Kiowa native people of the region.
Idaho was originally the name of steam boat transporting gold miners...it eventually became the name of the state. It's not a Native American name even though some people tried to make up connections to Native languages. Many of the lakes hear are named by both French and Native Americans. ( By the way northern Montana does have many beautiful mountains. I go there alot on the weekends. )
By the way the guy who made this doesn’t know this but the term ‘Sioux’ is offensive to the Dakota people as that’s what the Ojibwa people called them as an insult literally meaning snake. Long story short don’t say that
Thanks for letting me know mate
I've lived in Idaho. The running joke, when asked where he/she lives, the joke response is "You da ho"
Lifelong Rhode Island resident here. Until last year the state's full name was Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, which was the name when it became a British colony in 1636. At that time there were 2 groups of English settlers: one on Aquidneck Island (the one that resembles the Greek island of Rhodes), and a second on the mainland around the town of Providence. Back then the word "plantation" was just another word for a large farm, but some of them had slaves. In the 1700s several Rhode Island families became very wealthy from slave-trading, including the one that Brown University is named for. We can never atone for slavery, but slavery is the reason for the state's change of name.
By the way, the "Providence Plantations" portion of the colony was founded by an English-born religious dissident named Roger Williams. Thanks to his leadership, Rhode Island's was the first government in the world to give freedom of religion to all citizens; unfortunately African slaves and the indigenous peoples were not granted citizenship.
Very interesting stuff, thanks for sharing this info mate
@@kabirconsiders You're welcome
Floridian here! I love my state! Go to the west to see beautiful hills (not as big of hills as other parts of the country, but still beautiful) and the east for some of the greatest beaches in the US! The only other place I would want to live if I had to move is North Carolina; it is quite beautiful there as well and a lot of my family live there too.
The beaches on the west coast aren’t too shabby either with the warmer and calmer water. Love living in FL, it’s one of the few states you can watch the sun rise and set over the ocean with a short (by US standards) drive.
One of MANY details of US History we weren't taught in school (that I discovered as an adult) was the reason for the Louisiana Purchase. We bought it from Napoleon to finance his continuing war effort. Yeah, we made a shrewd deal, but at what cost?! 🥺
Many place names here in the Pacific Northwest are Native American words that were "spelled" by the early French fur traders, which gives them spellings that are honestly bizarre and often difficult to sound out properly for non-Native American, English speakers.
Texas was originally spelled Tejas the founding officials couldn’t decide if the j was silent or pronounced like h. They put an x as a place holder and it stuck. Also Tejas was the name of a First Nation/native tribe/group.
"Nebraska River"? I've never heard of it, and can't find it on a map. The narrator is actaully mentioning the Platte River -- "a mile wide and an inch deep."
the original creator is from Portugal
The description of the name of Arkansas is factually incorrect in EVERY way.
It comes from a Quapaw word (phrase actually) meaning "Downstream people" or more precisely "the people who live downstream"
The.word actually orginates from the Quapaw language. NOT the French or the various algonquian nations.
kentucky has so many cities and towns that are european like louisville, lexington, paris, versailles, london
We name places after the people and places we love...
and our financial backers and sponsors, as well as the
royalty who are going to certify our land grants (wink-wink).
I would love to take that journey in 1673, being born and bred in Wisconsin, to see the what it was like back then would be amazing. Hit up the North woods, the Peninsula and down to Milwaukee on Lake Michigan. It’s still bountiful in wild game like, deer, duck, trout, walleye, elk. Back then woodland Bison would’ve been around too. I’m also part Ojibwa so I would look like the natives without knowing the language
You should also, look into how each States of the Union, draw their borderline to the shape they are today.
Hi Kabir, I think I've mentioned this before, I live in Alabama, and I'm from a small town called Sipsey, it was named after the Sipsey River and by the Indians that use to live here. I don't remember the time period, but Sipsey use to be a mining area. Sorry for rambling a little bit. But what I'm getting to, is that I think he's wrong about the origin of my states name. I may be wrong, but I've never heard of the Alabama Indians. And I've lived here all my life. Without saying my age, I am a grandmother of 15 y/o twins.
Debbie downer here. Love this series. I find it so ironic and bizarre that most states are named from indigenous origins when the peoples were systemically murdered in an attempt to remove every sign that they lived on this land.
About the reference to Oklahoma very few native American words have been used in English the only one I can think of is tokagee (I think that's correct spelling) and most people can guess the word derived from it lol. Toke
You were talking about "a different time"... As you travel through some of the wide open, empty spaces that are more plains and desert and have very little water and are very dry and hot, it can be grueling even nowadays with air conditioning and cars that cross these areas in a few hours. One thinks back to the people who crossed these places in covered wagons with no bathing and rationed water and pickled or smoked or salted foodstuffs, and how difficult it must have been to go up and down through these ravines and things with a brace of oxen; crawling along with no protection from the sun or wind for a year or more. It's actually shocking any of them made it anywhere, but their hardiness cannot be overstated. Unfortunately they didn't take much advice from the local native peoples on how to live in those climates, which would have helped them all significantly. Instead they mostly went out of their way to shoot the people who already had possession of the land, a very sordid history.
One of the peculiarities of the naming of various tribes is that their names are also sort of rinsed by mistranslation and mispronunciation, but through usage they were basically forced to continue to use those names to this day because their official designations by the government were these mistranslated things. My anthropology teacher mentioned that essentially the naming of a lot of Native American tribes is a mistranslation of their enemy's name for them. She said basically what happened was, some explorer would go to the eastern side of a river and say, "Hi! What are you called?" and the local folk would answer, "Well, duh! 'The People'!", and then the explorers said, "oh, interesting; 'the peeeepllll'," and then they would write that down; and then they would say, "What do you call those guys over there across the river?" and the folks they were interviewing said, "Well, duh! 'The Assholes'!" So then the explorers would cross the river and go up to those people and say, "Hi! We understand that you're the Assholes?" She ended the lecture with, "it's a wonder that any of them ever made it back to the east coast cities with any information at all". But unfortunately some of those incorrect names stuck.
Kabir, I hope this help you understand how all our states get they name. Something that you may not knew is at Untied States, may get two new states in the future. One is Washington District of Columbia, and the other is Puerto Rico, that would make 52 in all maybe?
Two additional new states? How will this be decided? I’ll be interested to watch the process
@@kabirconsiders Our Congress makes these decisions. Several counties in the State of Oregon have recently voted to leave and to join on to the State of Idaho, thus creating Greater Idaho. I'm in support of this move, along with Puerto Rico gaining Statehood. Washington D.C. should not become a State. Our Founding Fathers established D.C. the way it is for a reason. Washington D.C. is a special city that already resides in a State.
@@md_vandenberg statehood is a little more complicated than just Congress deciding. I don’t remember all of the qualifications, but the people who live in the territory have to vote to move forward with applying for statehood and so far most Puerto Ricans are voting no (they have all the benefits of being a state without the headaches). Now after Hurricane Maria, more residents voted yes, but it still wasn’t enough to move the application forward (right now, as a commonwealth, they have most of the benefits of being a US citizen - which they are - without all of the things that come with being a state - like paying federal taxes). I agree that Puerto Rico should have the chance to become a state should the people vote that way and I also agree that DC shouldn’t be a state. It was set up to be separate because the Founding Fathers didn’t think the nation’s governing body should be part of any one state as it might cause conflict of interest (of course it is a lot more in depth than that as is statehood).
Also interesting to note that West Virginia decided to apply for statehood in 1861 at the start of the American Civil War. Western Virginia, at the time, was mainly home to Union supporters so when Virginia announced its secession from the Union, they got together and voted to apply for statehood. It took until June of 1863 for Congress to approve the application. A lot of the states that were granted statehood around the time of the Civil War were granted with a political agenda and usually tit for tat (one free state admitted for one slave state admitted). Of course statehood in and of itself is interesting and each state has its own uniqueness.
I doubt it. I don't think too many people want Puerto Rico as a state the financial drain would be great.
Rhode Island was an "island" of freedom to its religious settlers.
Kentucky is a native name meaning Dark and Bloody Battleground
It was also considered very sacred to Native American tribs due to hunting. In some Native tongue is was Land of Big Game.
13:40 France really fumbled the bag
I honestly don’t even know the origin of my states name. When the country first started out people were more loyal to their state than the union. Over time we’ve mostly moved our loyalty to the nation as a whole.
Before the video I’m going to guess that my state (Michigan) is a Native American name.
I’ve watched this video many times. I’m not entirely convinced some of these are correct.
Okay. Are you going to tell us your thoughts? You brought it up.
California especially southern has a strong Native American population. Even my home city Pasadena is a Native American word for Crown city or Crown of the valley.
I believe I recognize his voice, and that he is very intelligent young man of South Asian ancestry. Despite his age, he is an expert on human biodiversity.
Wonderful tutorial!
Your suggestion that so many of the state names deriving from Native American words or names is an "homage" says a lot (of good things) about your good will. But if it was an homage, the homage was accompanied by a host of atrocities which continued into the 20th century and are now replaced by economic, democratic and judicial inequities. (Same goes for Canada where I live.)
My hometown Kent, Washington was named for the county is England! Something to do with Europe losing its hops crops due to aphids and Kent, Washington supplying hops for a while. That is until we had our own aphid invasion! When I was growing up Kent was mainly farmland but when I was a teenager I noticed people were selling off their land for development! Now Kent is the sixth-largest municipality in the state of Washington!
If you ever get a chance and are interested which it seems like you probably would be considering all the videos that you make on America, you should watch the men that made America. They have the beginning and then they have the industrial age. It's extremely interesting and yes there is some history there that's not fun to listen to but it is our history. In the early part it talks about Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett. Extremely interesting. And if you want another kind of interesting thing to watch about American history watch the making of the mob. Talk about some craziness we've got some interesting history here for such a young country.
I certainly can't say that I knew most of those. Very interesting.
I’d wager that there aren’t more than 5 people on Earth that knew all this!
@@kabirconsiders Most likely not. That makes me feel better. I hope you have a great day bub.
Not sure if you’ve done this before but how about a video of each states most notorious people?
Imma "Calizonian"
Californian living in Arizona.
😁👍Now I can get hypo _and_ hyper-thermia in one 24hr period of time.
Just dont vote like a Californian
Most school children in the US, learn a history of your state in Middle School or high school.
This is REALLY late lol but… I’m pretty sure Oklahoma actually means “red people” or at least that’s what I learned growing up I live in Oklahoma