NAME-A-STATE

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Across
  1. 4. named for a river which the Menominee people called "wiskos" or muskrat, because so many of them lived there
  2. 6. named the green mountain state, Verd Mont" by a Frenchmen
  3. 7. named after a Sioux tribe, The Kansa tribe
  4. 9. named for a tribe of Algonquin Indians, the Michigamea which means "great lake"
  5. 10. from a Welsh word "pen" meaning hill and a Latin word "silvanius" meaning forest
  6. 11. named for the Sapnish word "coloror" which means to color
  7. 12. Named "Land of Maria" for the Queen of Charles I of England
Down
  1. 1. named for a river which the native people called "misi sipi", meaning "great river"
  2. 2. Named "Roodt Eylandt" or Red Island by a Dutch navigator
  3. 3. named after the wars between the Cherokee and Iroquois people "kentuke" or bloody ground
  4. 5. named by the Papago word "ari sonac" meaning "few springs"
  5. 8. Two Dakota words make up this state's name- "minni" or water and "sota" or skytinted