Etymologies of some state names

[Rankin, Robert L]

> 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?  
 
This is what the article is about.
 
> 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.
 
The latter, I suspect.  To me virtually any MVS language is more like Dhegiha than any of the OVS languages.
 
Bob