Kansas

[Bruce Hunter]

----- 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