I mean, did all the First Nations people share these names? I don't think that's the case, so if by "real names" you mean the First Nations names for them, I think they had multiple names depending on who you asked.
Exactly. Not to mention that all names are equally arbitrary (except for onomatopoeia, arguably, but I don't think that's relevant here), so none are more "real" (whatever that means) than any other.
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I mean, did all the First Nations people share these names? I don't think that's the case, so if by "real names" you mean the First Nations names for them, I think they had multiple names depending on who you asked.
And Winnebago, the "small" one east of Lake Michigan, means "stinky water" in Ojibwe.
*west
Yeah, that checks out.
Cool to see that at least 3 of the English names of these are Native American in origin
Why is it original names are always better than the changed ones?
I read all off these with the way I read Japanese lol
The indigenous people around Huron named it "the fresh water sea"... bullshit how would they know what non freshwater sea was?
I appreciate comments like this sometimes because it makes me look up and read something I wouldn’t have otherwise
Probably the giant river that goes all the way to a non freshwater sea?
What about whatever they were called before the people that called them that killed the guys that called it whatever it was called before?
I think that was an asteroid.
Do you think humans coincidentally started writing down history and having wars at the exact same moment? Repeatedly? Consistently? Across the globe?
Or is it more reasonable to assume that there were wars before recorded history?
Exactly. Not to mention that all names are equally arbitrary (except for onomatopoeia, arguably, but I don't think that's relevant here), so none are more "real" (whatever that means) than any other.