Why do they call it the "Mississippi river" if it runs through more states than just Mississippi?
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MARK say: The English name Mississippi comes from French Misi zipi. That was how French rendered the Ojibwe name of the river: Misi-ziibi which translates into English as Great River.
The state of Mississippi is named after the river not the other way round.
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John P say: The state was named after ("named for" as Americans say) the river, not the other way round.
And you will probably get confused when you learn of the "Louisiana Purchase" of land from colonial France by the new USA in 1803. That land area consisted of about the middle third of mainland USA, several times bigger than the present state called "Louisiana".
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Zhu say: Early Euro explorers were not good at getting names. Where the the Mississippi & the Missouri meet, the latter is rather bigger But La Salle (or whomever) was going down the Mississippi & wrote that the Missouri joined the Mississippi & not vice versa.
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The First Dragon say: They named the State after the river, not the other way around.
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Alex say: There are cheesy borders.
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Laura say: Do you not know basic research? Also, it is Mississippi River.
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Antiliber say: seriously? you do under stand the Natives Named the river that first ,, way before the territory then State was named Mississippi
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Ardeshir say: AFAIK, the name "MISSI-SIPPI" means "Great River" in a Native North American language (I think, Algonquin, though I am not certain, not being a native North American myself.)
Cheers.
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Moon Shot say: The word Mississippi itself comes from Misi zipi, the French rendering of the Anishinaabe (Ojibwe or Algonquin) name for the river, Misi-ziibi (Great River).
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Chicken Wing say: That was the name of the river long before the states were established.
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GEORGE B say: Because that's what the natives called it when the white man arrived.
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Tupac's death they poison us with Monsanto!
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Smoking Joe say: Kind of like the Colorado river.
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KaleyK say: The Anishinaabe indians, that spoke Ojibwe, named the river, MIsiziibi ... which means "Great River". The French ... one time owners of the Louisiana Territory ..... altered the name to Mississippi to fit their own pronunciation.
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American Noodle say: and you thought God planted English speaking whites in the Americas?
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Chewy Ivan 2 say: Mississippi is what Native Americans called the river. The state was named after the river. The same applies to the Ohio river, too.
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Raisin Caine say: Same reason that the Ohio river is actually part of many states with the exception of the state of Ohio. The naming of the river came before the states were even formed.
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abraXus say: who is "they"? you realize you can just google this, right, mr troll?
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