OKLAHOMA (CHOCTAW) / WYOMING (ALGONQUIN) / MISSISSIPPI (CHIPPEWA)

state names that seem misplaced from their Indian names . . .

• The Choctaw were originally from the area of the lower Mississippi River, but they were one of the "Five Civilized Tribes" that the U.S. government moved out west.
• The Algonquin were from the Great Lakes region, and a valley in Pennsylvania was given the name "Wyoming." That name was carried west by the white settlers.
• The Chippewa were from the upper midwest, and they named that "great river" that originates in Minnesota. It travels a few hundred miles south before passing the state that bears its name.

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