Kansas

[Beverly Flanigan]

At 09:15 AM 2/11/2003 -0800, you wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Beverly Flanigan" <flanigan at OHIO.EDU>
>To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
>Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 8:08 AM
>Subject: Re: Ozark etymology -- LONG [was Ozark Pudding (1949)]
>
>
> > A follow-up to this very interesting history:  Is Kansas the same word
> > front-clipped?  Based on same tribal residence?
>From: http://www.50states.com/kansas.htm
>
> From the Sioux Indian for "south wind people"
>
>Bruce Hunter

Since "Sioux" is not a language, I assume this is from one of the languages
in the Siouan family--that spoken by the Quapaw, as in Arkansas?  In other
words, were the Quapaw (a tribe I'm not familiar with) in the Kansas
territory too?