Ethnic Terms

[David Costa]

>> 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