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

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    The name was borrowed into Spanish as texa, plural texas, and was used to refer to the Nabedache people (and later to the Caddo Nation in general). When the Spanish decided to convert the Nabedache to Catholicism, they constructed La Misión de San Francisco de los Texas, which later came to be used in naming the Viceroyalty of New Spain’s ...

  3. Template : Official languages of U.S. states and territories

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    Arkansas: Yes: None: since 1987 [1] California: Yes: None: since 1986 with Proposition 63. [1] Proposition 63 is unenforceable due to the lack of appropriate legislation, [4] and the Bilingual Services Act provides for the use of other languages in public outreach. [5] Colorado: Yes: None

  4. List of place names of Spanish origin in the United States

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    Post-colonial: Spanish place names that have no history of being used during the colonial period for the place in question or for nearby related places. (Ex: Lake Buena Vista, Florida, named in 1969 after a street in Burbank, California) Non-Spanish: Place names originating from non-Spaniards or in non-historically Spanish areas.

  5. Arkansas - Wikipedia

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    Arkansas (/ ˈ ɑːr k ən s ɔː / ⓘ AR-kən-saw [c]) is a landlocked state in the West South Central region of the Southern United States. [9] [10] It borders Missouri to the north, Tennessee and Mississippi to the east, Louisiana to the south, Texas to the southwest, and Oklahoma to the west.

  6. Arkansas (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Arkansas (Glen Campbell album) 1975; Arkansas (Bruce Hampton album), 1987; Arkansas (The Residents album), 2009; Arkansas (John Oates album), 2018 "Arkansas" (song), the state anthem of Arkansas, by Eva Ware Barnett "Arkansas (You Run Deep in Me)", an alternative state song "Arkansas", a song from the 1975 Glen Campbell album Arkansas

  7. Arkansas Territory - Wikipedia

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    The Arkansas Territory was a territory of the United States from July 4, 1819, to June 15, 1836, when the final extent of Arkansas Territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Arkansas. [2] Arkansas Post was the first territorial capital (1819–1821) and Little Rock was the second (1821–1836).

  8. History of Arkansas - Wikipedia

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    Beginning around 11,700 B.C.E., the first indigenous people inhabited the area now known as Arkansas after crossing today's Bering Strait, formerly Beringia. [3] The first people in modern-day Arkansas likely hunted woolly mammoths by running them off cliffs or using Clovis points, and began to fish as major rivers began to thaw towards the end of the last great ice age. [4]

  9. Wilson v. Arkansas - Wikipedia

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    Wilson v. Arkansas, 514 U.S. 927 (1995), is a United States Supreme Court decision in which the Court held that the traditional, common-law-derived "knock and announce" rule for executing search warrants must be incorporated into the "reasonableness" analysis of whether the actual execution of the warrant is/was justified under the 4th Amendment.