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"Indiana" means "Indian Lands." The use of that word to describe the territory now called Indiana dates back to at least 1768 and the "Indiana Land Company." The name was used in 1800 when creating the Indiana Territory out of the Northwest Territory when Ohio was being prepared for admission as a state. At that time, most of the Indiana Territory was land held by the Indians (as Native Americans were then called) and not controlled by the US government.
Indiana got its name from the Indians. That is why its called "Land of the Indians"
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The current State of Ohio is a portion of what was once called the Ohio Territory. Along with the State of Ohio, the Ohio Territory included a portion of what is now Indiana, part of Pennsylvania, and part of West Virginia.
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the Northern Territory is what it was called
Virginia was not only the home state of many US Presidents- it was the origin of many other states. Virginia has been called the "Mother of States" because she was the first of the states to be settled and because of the number of states that were "born" of the Virginia territory. West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin and, even a part of Minnesota were all a part of the original Virginia territory
they were called the northwest territory.
The Northwest territories, the Yukon and our latest territory is called Nunavut