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Cool to see that at least 3 of the English names of these are Native American in origin
Why is it original names are always better than the changed ones?
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And Winnebago, the “small” one east of Lake Michigan, means “stinky water” in Ojibwe.
Yeah, that checks out.
Maybe you just need to clean your RV’s pipes tanks…
east of Lake Michigan
*west
Yeah, that one
I mean, did all the First Nations people share these names? I don’t think that’s the case, so if by “real names” you mean the First Nations names for them, I think they had multiple names depending on who you asked.
I think it’s still better than colonizing somewhere and calling it New “british town”
I only knew the one from the edmund fitzgerald song.
I read all off these with the way I read Japanese lol
The indigenous people around Huron named it “the fresh water sea”… bullshit how would they know what non freshwater sea was?
Im not claiming the indeginois people were ignorant. They were surrounded by freshwater. It was called the lake of many shores…the French called it the freshwater sea. Have some perspective yall
I usually just assume Aboriginal Peoples weren’t fucking stupid, but you do you.
Probably the giant river that goes all the way to a non freshwater sea?
People transferred or married into tribes occasionally and there was trade. If you were Huron you probably traded with Iroquois and if you were Fox you probably occasionally traded with Wampanaog and Lenovo which were on the eastern sea board.
Of course, savages couldn’t possibly know anything about the world outside their 10km radius. Ass. THEY HAD SURGERY. They had pan-continental trade. THE NAME OF NORTH AMERICA IS TURTLE ISLAND. They fucking know what an ocean is.
What about whatever they were called before the people that called them that killed the guys that called it whatever it was called before?
I think that was an asteroid.
Do you think humans coincidentally started writing down history and having wars at the exact same moment? Repeatedly? Consistently? Across the globe?
Or is it more reasonable to assume that there were wars before recorded history?
Exactly. Not to mention that all names are equally arbitrary (except for onomatopoeia, arguably, but I don’t think that’s relevant here), so none are more “real” (whatever that means) than any other.
