No state got its name from the Algonquin word "wauregan", but it IS the name of a city in Connecticut.
Despite the fact that "wauregan" sounds very much like "Oregon", nearly all historians and etymologists believe that the state's name comes from a different source.
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West Bengal and Punjab
Indian BlanketOklahoma Rose is the Oklahoma state flower. The former state flower used to be mistletoe but it was changed in 2004. Indian blanket or blanketflower is the official wildflower.
Texas The word, Texas, or Tejas, was the Spanish pronunciation of a Caddo Indian word meaning "friends" or "allies."
Texas The word, Texas, or Tejas, was the Spanish pronunciation of a Caddo Indian word meaning "friends" or "allies."
Michigan
Kentucky, from the Iroquois place name, Ketake, meaning "meadow land".
From Indian word "Michigana" meaning "great or large lake"
Tallahassee is Florida's state capital because 2 explorers set out in the early 1800's to find a place for Florida's legislature to meet. One of the explorers was on horseback, and the other one was on boat. They met at a beautiful spot that the Creek and another Indian tribe called "Tallahassee"__ coming from the Indian words "talwa" meaning town, and "ahasee" meaning old. Tallahassee means "old town." I hope that helps!
The chrysalis symbolizes rebirth--often moving from an "ugly" state to rebirth in a beautiful form.
Arizona.
Friendship. The word Texas is from a Caddo Indian word "teyshas", meaning "friends" or "allies".