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The name Kansas derives from the Algonquian term, Akansa, for the Quapaw people. These were a Dhegiha Siouan-speaking people who settled in Arkansas around the 13th century. . The stem -kansa is named after the Kaw people, also known as the Kansa, a federally recognized Native American tribe.
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.
Meaning and notes American Samoa: 1911 [111] [note 1] (July 17) English and Samoan: American + Sāmoa: The CIA World Factbook says "The name Samoa is composed of two parts, 'sa', meaning sacred, and 'moa', meaning center, so the name can mean Holy Center; alternately, it can mean 'place of the sacred moa bird' of Polynesian mythology."
Arkansas – from the Illinois rendering of the tribal autonym kką:ze (see Kansas, below), which the Miami and Illinois used to refer to the Quapaw. [4] Connecticut – from some Eastern Algonquian language of southern New England (perhaps Mahican), meaning "at the long tidal river" (after the Connecticut River).
Jurisdiction Recommended by USGPO [1] Alternatives Official Unofficial Archaic Non-English Alabama Alabamian Alabaman [2] Alaska Alaskan Russian: аляскинец, romanized: alyaskinets [3]
Kansas lawmakers disagree on the meaning of the message that voters sent when they resoundingly rejected an anti-abortion constitutional amendment.
Kansas City metropolitan area (parts of Missouri and Kansas) Louisville metropolitan area (Kentuckiana) (parts of Kentucky and Indiana) Memphis metropolitan area (parts of Tennessee, Arkansas, and Mississippi) Michiana (parts of Michigan and Indiana) Minneapolis–Saint Paul (the Twin Cities) (parts of Minnesota and Wisconsin)
A lawsuit that Attorney General Kris Kobach filed in Arkansas is moving to Kansas after he failed to establish standing there to sue over a new federal government regulation on gun sellers.