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State Names

Monday, May 9, 2011

I was doing some searches on cultural facts from around the world and found this website directed towards kids.  While it has some interesting facts, what I found most fascinating was its description of U.S. state names.  According to the site, the origin of twenty six different states’ names come from Native American words.  Here is the grid, courtesy of kulturekids.org:


1 comments:

Zach said...

Awesome Casey. I love how I have more crap on Iowa -- "Sleepy Ones," haha that is great.

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