Indigenous State Names

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Across
  1. 2. from the Choctaw word "Alba Ayamule", meaning "thicket clearers" or "vegetation gatherers."
  2. 4. from the Seneca word "ohiyo", meaning "good river", "large creek", or "it is beautiful"
  3. 6. from the Kansa (Kaw) tribe, meaning "people of the south wind."
  4. 8. from the O'odham word "alĭ ṣonak", meaning "small spring."
Down
  1. 1. from the Algonquin word "iliniwek", meaning "men", "warriors", or "best people."
  2. 3. from the Ojibwe word "Misi-ziibi", meaning "great river."
  3. 5. from the Sioux word "Dakota", meaning "friend" or "ally" .
  4. 7. from the Mohegan-Pequot word "quinnitukqut", meaning "long river."