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  2. Dakota people - Wikipedia

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    Despite ceding their lands, their treaty with the U.S. government allowed them to maintain their traditional role in the Očhéthi Šakówiŋ as the caretakers of the Pipestone Quarry, which is the cultural center of the Sioux people. They are considered to be the Western Dakota (also called middle Sioux), and have in the past been erroneously ...

  3. List of state and territory name etymologies of the United ...

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    Map showing the source languages/language families of state names. The fifty U.S. states, the District of Columbia, the five inhabited U.S. territories, and the U.S. Minor Outlying Islands have taken their names from a wide variety of languages. The names of 24 states derive from indigenous languages of the Americas and one from Hawaiian.

  4. List of U.S. state and territory nicknames - Wikipedia

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    Empire State of the South — Georgia is the largest Southern state in land area east of the Mississippi and was the leading industrial state of the Old South. [42] Goober State — Refers to peanuts, the official state crop. [43] State of Adventure Guam: Tano y Chamorro (Land of the Chamorro) [44] (used on Guam license plates) [45] [46] Hub of ...

  5. List of demonyms for US states and territories - Wikipedia

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    Georgia: Georgian Buzzard, Cracker, Goober-grabber [20] Guam: Guamanian Chamorro: Tåotåo Guåhån Hawaii: Hawaii resident Islander, [21] Kamaʻāina. The Associated Press Stylebook restricts use of "Hawaiian" to people of Native Hawaiian descent. [22] Hawaiian: Kamaʻāina Idaho: Idahoan Illinois: Illinoisan

  6. Sioux - Wikipedia

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    [48] Despite ceding their lands, the treaty allowed the Western Dakota to maintain their traditional role in the Očhéthi Šakówiŋ as the caretakers of the Pipestone Quarry, which is the cultural center of the Sioux people. [48] Map showing the boundaries of the 1851 Treaty of Traverse des Sioux land cession area (Royce Area 289)

  7. West Georgia (region) - Wikipedia

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    West Georgia is a sixteen-county region in the U.S. state of Georgia, bordering Alabama. [1] Encompassing a portion of the Southern Rivers , West Georgia is anchored by Columbus , the state's second-largest city by population; its metropolitan statistical area , as of 2020, was Georgia's fourth-most populous metropolitan area.

  8. List of municipalities in Georgia (U.S. state) - Wikipedia

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    Map of the United States with Georgia highlighted. Georgia is a state located in the Southern United States.According to the 2010 United States census, Georgia was the 8th most populous state with 9,688,681 inhabitants and the 21st largest by land area spanning 57,513.49 square miles (148,959.3 km 2) of land. [1]

  9. Dakotas - Wikipedia

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    The Dakotas, also known as simply Dakota, is a collective term for the U.S. states of North Dakota and South Dakota.It has been used historically to describe the Dakota Territory, and is still used for the collective heritage, [2] culture, geography, [3] fauna, [4] sociology, [5] economy, [6] [7] and cuisine [8] of the two states.