Etymologies of some state names

[Rory M Larson]

> My own feeling is that all 5 Dhegiha-speaking tribes were in the Ohio
Valley and probably never in the upper Midwest until the Omahas and Poncas
moved North.  This would have been between about the 7th and 12th centuries
A.D. at least.  I tried to show this in my article in Histories of Maize:
Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Prehistory, Biogeography,
Domestication, and Evolution of Maize. Edited by John E. Staller, Robert H.
Tykot, Bruce F. Benz. Published by Elsevier, San Diego, N.Y. 2006.   The
paper shows a definite dissociation of Dhegiha from Chiwere and Dakota at a
fairly early date.

This would put the Dhegihans closest to the Southeastern languages,
wouldn't it?  Any sense of the languages of these two groups having
similarities due to proximity?  I seem to find Biloxi easier than other
Siouan languages outside of Dhegiha, but I'm not sure whether it's really
similar to OP, or if it's just because both Biloxi and OP have substantial
interlinear texts recorded by Dorsey.

Rory
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