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State
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Origin
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Hint
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City
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ME
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Micmac: "qalipu" (snow shoveler)
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Named after a horned animal
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Caribou
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TN
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Muskogee: from "cvto" (rock)
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Civil War railroad city bordering the Cumberland Plateau; names a "Choo Choo" song from the 1940s
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Chattanooga
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VA
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Algonquin: "Chesepiooc" ("at a big river")
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Shares its name with a bay between Maryland and Virginia and the largest estuary in the US
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Chesapeake
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WY
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Dakota: "Šahíyena" (diminutive of "Cree")
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Capital of Wyoming
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Cheyenne
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IL
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Miami-Illinois: "Shikaakwa" (wild leek)
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Biggest city in Illinois, home to the Bulls, Bears, Cubs, and Fire
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Chicago
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NC
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Algonquin: (there is less vegetation)
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Shares its name with a Cape and Inlet in the Outer Banks, along with a famous Lighthouse
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Hatteras
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CA
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Ventureño Chumash: "Humaliwo ("the surf sounds loudly")
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Beach city in Los Angeles County; setting of "Two and a Half Men," "Hannah Montana;" namesake of a coconut liqueur
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Malibu
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FL
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Mayaimi: "mayaimi" (big river)
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Home to the Dolphins, Heat, and Marlins
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Miami
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WI
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Algonquin: "Millioke" ("the good/beautiful land;" "gathering place by the water")
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The most populous city in Wisconsin, home to the Bucks
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Milwaukee
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MN
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Dakota: "mníȟaȟa" (waterfall) (with Greek suffix for city)
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The bigger of Minnesota's Twin Cities
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Minneapolis
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UT
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Paiute: "moapa" (mosquitoes)
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Site of both Arches and Canyonlands National Parks
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Moab
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NY
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Iroquoian: "Onguiaahra" ("the strait")
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Near famous transnational set of waterfalls shared with Canada
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Niagara
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PA
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Lenape: "nekwti ahtəne" (single mountain)
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Same name as the Mountain that gives Penn State its mascot
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Nittany
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NE
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(Language is same as city): "Umoⁿhoⁿ" ("upstream people")
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Nebraska's most populous city, home of Berkshire Hathaway
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Omaha
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RI
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Algonquin: (Name is same as city): ("at the falls in the river [tidal stream]")
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Fourth-largest RI city; home to Slater Mill, a symbol of the Industrial Revolution; names the Family Guy brewery
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Pawtucket
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FL
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Choctaw: "pashi oklah" (hair people)
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Westernmost city in the Florida Panhandle, base of the Blue Angels flight team
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Pensacola
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MI
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Ottawa: "Bwandiag" (the name of an Ottawan war chief
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Former site of General Motors plants, namesake of a "Silverdome" and a GM companion brand
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Pontiac
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MD
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Algonquin: approx. "Patawomeke"("place where people trade")
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Named after the nearby river that also passes through Washington, DC
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Potomac
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PA
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Lenape: "Punkwsutenay" (town of little sandflies)
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Its resident groundhog "Phil" predicts the advent of spring or continuation of winter
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Punxsutawney
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NC
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Algonquin: "rawrenoc" (a kind of shell used as money)
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Its island was home of the "lost colony" that the English founded in the late 1500s
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Roanoke
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NY
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Iroquoian: "se-rach-ta-gue" (debatably "floating scum upon the water")
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It and its "Springs" neighbor were the site of a namesake Fort and Battle, the site of the turning point of the American Revolution
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Saratoga
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WA
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Lushootseed "dᶻidᶻəlal̓ič" ("little crossing-over place")
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Biggest city in the Pacific Northwest, home to the Seahawks, Mariners, and Sounders
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Seattle
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CA
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Miwok/Pomo/Suisin(?): (valley of the moon" / "many moons"
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Bay area wine city with namesake "International Film Festival"
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Sonoma
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AL
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Muscogee: "italua" (town), and "atigi" (at the end, on the border)
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South of a town with a namesake "Superspeedway" which inspired a 2006 racing film
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Talladega
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FL
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Muscogee: "talahá:ssi" (old tribal town)
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The state capital, home to Florida State University
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Tallahassee
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NM
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(Name and language are same as city): ("(place of) red willows")
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Home to a namesake "Pueblo," the northernmost in the state, having been occupied for nearly 1000 years
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Taos
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NY
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Mohawk: "tekontaró:ken" ("it is at the junction of two waterways")
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Namesake of a famous Revolutionary War fort, now also a pencil brand
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Ticonderoga
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KS
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Kansa: "dóppikʔe" ("a good place to dig wild potatoes")
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State capital of Kansas
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Topeka
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AZ
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O'odham: "cuk ṣon" (black base)
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Second-largest city in Arizona
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Tucson
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AL
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Koasati "tasquiqui" (warriors)
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Home of a historic "Institute" and its famous "Airmen"
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Tuskegee
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WA
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Walawalałáma: same as language ("many waters")
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Alliterative name with the state with a namesake river; close to the Oregon border
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Walla Walla
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OR
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Kalapuyan/Clackamas: "Wallamt" (still water)
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Shares its name with a namesake River, National Forest, and Valley in the Pacific Northwest
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Willamette
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