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Actually, it's the other way around. The name "Mississippi" means "Large river" in the language of the Chippewa Indians. The Mississippi river was already documented with that name as far back as 1695, on a map drawn by Robert Cavelier Sieur de La Salle, and many years later, the state was named after the river that borders it.

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