Ethnic Terms

[Michael Mccafferty]

Quite likely. Yes.

On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, David Costa wrote:

>
> >> Amusingly, Albert Gatschet's notes point out that the Miami name for the
> >> town of Mexico, Indiana (I have no idea why it's called that) was
> >> /iihpaawalonki/, literally 'place of Mexicans', the same as the Miami name
> >> for the country.
> >
> > It probably means what it says and is likely a "new" Miami place name,
> > post diaspora.
>
> Oh, I know. I'm assuming Mexico, Indiana got its name around the same time
> as for the same reasons as the nearby Peru, Indiana (location of the office
> of the Miami Nation of Indiana), Chili, Indiana, and Jalapa, Indiana.
>
> David
>
>
>


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