Where Does that Name Come From?
OCTOBER 6, 2007 Listen to this Story
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Monday is Columbus Day, also known as Indigenous Peoples Day. In honor of the holiday, we thought we'd find out about the Native American origins of some common places, like Milwaukee and Seattle. Some of these names are pretty straightforward. But others, says Ives Goddard of the Smithsonian Institution, are hard to figure out.
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From ozark, MO, 07/04/2009
Why is it so hard to find the origin of the word America?
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