# @indigenous.tv on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DRFQyaDkan_
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/37021752-indigenoustv-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-11-15T15:31:17.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** INDIGENOUSTV (@indigenous.tv) — https://gondola.cc/indigenous.tv

## Caption

Did you know this? 🇺🇸
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The United States of America contains 50 states, and 27 state names are based in American Indian languages:

- Alabama (Choctaw)
- Alaska (Aleut)
- Arizona (O’odham)
- Arkansas (Illinois)
- Connecticut (Algonquian)
- Hawaii (Kanaka Maoli)
- Idaho (Apache)
- Illinois (Algonquian language group, probably Miami)
- Iowa (Dakota)
- Kansas (Kansas)
- Kentucky (Seneca)
- Massachusetts (Narragansett)
- Michigan (Ottawa)
- Minnesota (Dakota)
- Mississippi (Ojibwe)
- Missouri (Missouri)
- Nebraska (Chiwere)
- New Mexico (Nahuatl)
- North and South Dakota (Dakota)
- Ohio (Seneca)
- Oklahoma (Choctaw)
- Tennessee (Cherokee)
- Texas (Caddo)
- Utah (Apache)
- Wisconsin (Miami)
- Wyoming (Lenape)

As long as these states use our language, future generations will always have a thread to pull that can lead them back to traditional languages & culture.

What are your thoughts after learning that Indigenous languages are used on a daily basis like this? 🤔
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🖼️: fromthepeople.co 

#IndigenousLanguages #UnitedStates 
#NativeAmericanHeritageMonth

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