"I mean, yes we have Native Americans but candidly there isn't much Native American culture in American culture"
#Republicans idiocy is real.. here's why.
#NativeAmerican #language & #culture named half our states.

@SmithsonianNMAI walk, it's close #ricksantorum

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Alabama: Alibamu for “clears the thicket.”
Alaska:“Alakshak’ which means peninsula.
Connecticut: “quinnitukg-ut” which means “at the long tidal river.”
Hawaii:“Havaiki” or “Hawaiki,”
Idaho: Comanche “Idahi”, Shoshone “ee-dah-how” “Good Morning”

Educate yourself #ricksantorum
Illinois: “ilhiniwek” or “illiniwek”. “Illini”
Iowa: Ioway Indians.
Kansas: Kansa Indians.
Kentucky: meadow lands, cane and turkey lands, or dark and bloody ground.
Massachusetts: “about the big hill.”
Michigan: Chippewa for “Michigama” meaning “large lake.”
#NativeAmerican
Minnesota: Dakota for “Minisota” meaning “white water.”
Mississippi: Choctaw word meaning “Great water” or “Father of Waters.”
Missouri:“Town of the large canoes.”
Nebraska: Oto for “flat water.”
New Mexico : Obvious sources.
Ohio: Iroquois for “beautiful.”

#NativeAmerican
Oklahoma: Chocraw for “red people.
South /North Dakota: Dahkota for “friends” or Tennessee: Cherokee “Tanasi” which was a village or “meeting place”, “winding river”,“river of the great bend”
Texas: Caddo word meaning “allies.
Learn more here. americanindian.si.edu
#native
Utah: Ute word “Yuta” for“people who live high in the mountains."
Wisconsin: “Wishkonsing” meaning “place of the beaver.”
Wyoming: “On the Great Plain.”
#NativeAmerican culture has contributed a VAST amount of referencess names of Towns Cities, flora Fauna & natural resources
"More than 2,000 Native American words have been contributed to or helped develop words in the English language."
#NativeAmerican
#NativeTwitter
infobloom.com/how-has-americ…
Native American Influences on Modern American Culture.
#ricksantorum walk over to the @SmithsonianNMAI... You might learn something..
#NativeAmerican
pradananusantara.com/2011/10/19/nat… via @wordpressdotcom

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