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