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[–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

Kansas is named for the Kaw People Native American Nation (or Kanza) and Arkansas is named for the Quapaw Nation. Algonquian-speaking people originally referred to the Quapaw as "Akansa". French fur traders called them Arcansas.

I grew up in Kansas and we called it Ar-kansas.

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